Demis Hassabis Had Reportedly Been Plotting to Leave His DeepMind CEO Job for a Year
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, has reportedly been planning to leave his position for a year due to dissatisfaction with his tech executive role. He will be transitioning to a new role as chief scientist at parent company Alphabet, where he can focus on using AI to solve scientific puzzles. Hassabis will still maintain a role as chair of Google DeepMind and lead Alphabet's AI drug-discovery division Isomorphic Labs.
- ▪Demis Hassabis had been planning to leave his Google DeepMind CEO role for at least a year.
- ▪Hassabis was reportedly dissatisfied with his tech executive job and wanted to focus on scientific research.
- ▪He will remain chair of Google DeepMind and lead Alphabet's AI drug-discovery division Isomorphic Labs.
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An anonymously sourced report from Semafor about Demis Hassabis’s departure from his Google DeepMind CEO role, and his transition to a new role as chief scientist at parent company Alphabet, seems eager to clarify that he left of his own volition, and that he had apparently wanted out for a while.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000795110","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"alphabet-inc,alphafold,demis-hassabis,google-deepmind","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Alphabet announced the move as part…
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