Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down in AI lab shake-up

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps aside in shake-up of AI lab

Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind and moving to an advisory role. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who has long led research at the lab, will take over. The change comes two years after Google merged DeepMind and Google Research. Hassabis said in an internal note that 'the time is right.' The article does not disclose why he is leaving the CEO role or whether he stays within Alphabet.

Why it matters: A founder CEO stepping down at DeepMind is an industry-level personnel shake-up, broken by FT with a named successor. The post doesn't disclose why Hassabis is leaving or where he goes next — the only gap keeping this from 95.