Exclusive: Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 and sold to Google in 2014 was at least a year in the making, said two people familiar with his thinking.Hassabis had been drifting away from the day-to-day responsibilities of running the company’s Gemini AI models and its consumer AI strategy, said the people, increasingly shifting them to Koray Kavukcuoglu, the company’s chief AI architect.Hassabis wasn’t pushed out against his will, sa...
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