Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO
Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind's chairman, handing daily operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu as veteran researcher Jeff Dean also departs.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI Talent War and AI in Business — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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What Is the AI Talent War — and Why Does It Matter?
AI labs are offering researchers pay packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Here's why the fight for talent has gotten this extreme, and what it means for everyone else.
Read more →Two More Senior Gemini Researchers Quit Google for Anthropic
Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — both key figures in Gemini development and AlphaFold — are leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, extending a six-day talent exodus that erased roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.
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Nobel laureate John Jumper and transformer pioneer Noam Shazeer both left Google DeepMind within 48 hours, heading to Anthropic and OpenAI as Alphabet's stock fell over 5%.
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