Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist (Ina Fried/Axios)

<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260805/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260805/p26#a260805p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ina Fried / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai">Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's Chairman.&nbsp; Chief scientist Jeff Dean and another Google AI executive &hellip; </p>