He’s replacing Jeff Dean as Chief Scientist of Alphabet, this could be a step towards more control over Google as a whole (including TPUs and strategic decisions about GDM). But the overall exodus doesn’t suggest much confidence in Gemini 4 catching up to the frontier, and there’s now a solid track record of failing to catch up (I think Meta has a better chance in 2027 than GDM does). So staying in charge of GDM doesn’t offer Hassabis more accolades, he might even want to distance himself from its continued failures (while keeping the option of taking partial credit if they start succeeding).
Based on twitter discussions, people seem split as to whether this is Demis being promoted to a more strategic role or him being removed from power over GDM due to their recent setbacks.
Jeff Dean has left Google and Demis is stepping down from heading DeepMind to “have the time and space to focus on the big picture”
He’s replacing Jeff Dean as Chief Scientist of Alphabet, this could be a step towards more control over Google as a whole (including TPUs and strategic decisions about GDM). But the overall exodus doesn’t suggest much confidence in Gemini 4 catching up to the frontier, and there’s now a solid track record of failing to catch up (I think Meta has a better chance in 2027 than GDM does). So staying in charge of GDM doesn’t offer Hassabis more accolades, he might even want to distance himself from its continued failures (while keeping the option of taking partial credit if they start succeeding).
(Curious about the disagree-votes.)
Based on twitter discussions, people seem split as to whether this is Demis being promoted to a more strategic role or him being removed from power over GDM due to their recent setbacks.
Huh. Should I sell my Google stock?
Google owns a large share of Anthropic.
If that’s the only reason to hold GOOG or GOOGL, you might as well sell and buy Anthropic stock instead?
That presumes you have a way to buy Anthropic stock and that the tax costs are worth the rotation
Jeff Dean will build an autoresearcher of your choosing … https://www.discoveryloop.com/#team