Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced leadership changes at Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis moves from day-to-day leadership to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs and advising on models and research. Koray Kavukcuoglu, previously GDM Chief Technology Officer and Google's Chief AI Architect, becomes SVP of Google DeepMind reporting to Pichai, overseeing Gemini model development, Frontier AI research, and the Gemini app and developer teams. Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to launch an independent public benefit corporation for ML, science and engineering discoveries with Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, with Alphabet as founding investor and Cloud partner. Pichai cited 950M+ monthly Gemini app users, 900M+ Gemma downloads, and Hassabis referenced progress on Gemini 4.
- blog.google2026-08-05