Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
Hassabis’ move shifts Google’s top AI leadership further away from London.
Bloomberg frames the change as a blow to the UK’s standing in artificial intelligence because Hassabis had been running a major US tech company’s AI work from Britain. He is stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO and moving into a new role as chair and Alphabet chief scientist. The piece says that weakens the effort he had led to keep the UK central to frontier AI inside Google. Techmeme's note
Bloomberg frames the change as a blow to the UK’s standing in artificial intelligence because Hassabis had been running a major US tech company’s AI work from Britain. He is stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO and moving into a new role as chair and Alphabet chief scientist. The piece says that weakens the effort he had led to keep the UK central to frontier AI inside Google. Techmeme's note
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