Demis Hassabis is changing to a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet. koraykv will be stepping up to lead Google DeepMind as SVP, alongside @joshwoodward and the exec team. At roughly the same time, several Google heavy hitters have left to found Discovery Loop (a public benefit corporation). Jeff Dean (Google’s longtime chief scientist / Gemini technical co-lead, 27-year veteran, foundational to search infrastructure, Brain, TensorFlow, TPUs, etc. ), Sanjay Ghemawat (his longtime systems collaborator), Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind research VP and Gemini technical lead), and Quoc Le (Google Brain co-founder, AutoML etc.)