Insider on Google's AI management adjustments: Hassabis planned to leave his job at the same time as Jeff Dean and advised him to stay due to concerns about the stock price crash

Comparing news, according to industry sources, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis originally planned to leave Google at the same time as Jeff Dean, but Google management determined that announcing the departure of the two at the same time would cause the stock price to collapse. In fact, Google's stock price had dropped 5% after announcing the departure of Jeff Dean and others. Management therefore persuaded Hassabis to transition to DeepMind's chairmanship to allow the organization to stabilize for a period of time before exiting in a more dignified manner. As chairman, Hassabis can focus more on scientific pursuit and increase investment in Isomorphic Labs (Alphabet's drug discovery company), which it founded. Current sources predict that Hassabis will completely leave Google within a year.

Recently, Google's AI management underwent major adjustments. DeepMind changed its head, the core figure Jeff Dean left his job, and the stock price fell at the same time. Jeff Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and a central figure in designing the company's artificial intelligence strategy for the past 15 years, is leaving the company to become CEO of a new nonprofit company called Discovery Loop. Dean also co-founded Google employees Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat. Together, the four have promoted important advances in mathematics and protein structure, and are one of the most cited researchers in the world. These talents, including Dean, have left Google, further exacerbating the company's recent trend of AI brain drain.

Meanwhile, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will adjust his position, step down from his day-to-day operations role, become the chairman of Google DeepMind, and also serve as Alphabet's chief scientist to continue leading Isomorphic Labs. Hassabis is one of the key figures in the field of artificial intelligence. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and continued to lead the team after being acquired by Google in 2014. In recent years, DeepMind has promoted the development of basic models, artificial intelligence research, and scientific computing. Under its leadership, DeepMind launched influential AI projects including AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and became a core force in Google's artificial intelligence strategy.

In the detailed report, see “Hassabis steps down, Jeff Dean leaves his job to start a business, Google's military spirit is scattered”