Google elevates Koray Kavukcuoglu to SVP of DeepMind - GOOGL News | RalliesGoogle elevates Koray Kavukcuoglu to SVP of DeepMind
G
GOOGL• Google DeepMind leadership changes
- Google LLC named Demis Hassabis chair of Google DeepMind, chief scientist of Alphabet, while he continues to lead Isomorphic Labs.
- Koray Kavukcuoglu will become SVP of Google DeepMind, stepping up from CTO and chief AI architect; he will oversee Gemini models, frontier research.
- Kavukcuoglu has spent 13 years at DeepMind, started its deep learning team, led work behind WaveNet and DQN.
- Jeff Dean will leave to launch an independent public benefit corporation with Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat focused on ML, science, engineering.
- Google will act as a founding investor, serve as a Cloud partner, collaborate on a research framework for ML systems infrastructure.