Demis Hassabis will step down from the day-to-day running of Google DeepMind to become its chairman. Staff memos published August 5 say 27-year Google veteran Jeff Dean is leaving to start a startup that Google will help fund. Hassabis steps back as Kavukcuoglu takes overHassabis is taking on two new titles, Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. “I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand,” Hassabis wrote. DeepMind vice president Oriol Vinyals and Google Brain co-founder Quoc Le are joining too.