A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/google-deepmind-koray-kavukcuoglu.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260812/i12.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260812/p12#a260812p12" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Kai Nicol-Schwarz / <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/google-deepmind-koray-kavukcuoglu.html">A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; DeepMind's new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.</p>