[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
Four of Google’s most senior AI figures are leaving DeepMind to start Discovery Loop, while Demis Hassabis moves out of day-to-day control.
Latent Space frames the exits of Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le as a coordinated break from DeepMind to found an autoresearch startup. The piece says the split is amicable, with Google investing in Discovery Loop. It also notes Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking operational control as SVP. The author’s open question is why work like Discovery Loop could not happen inside Google. Latent Space's note
Latent Space frames the exits of Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le as a coordinated break from DeepMind to found an autoresearch startup. The piece says the split is amicable, with Google investing in Discovery Loop. It also notes Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking operational control as SVP. The author’s open question is why work like Discovery Loop could not happen inside Google. Latent Space's note
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