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Market2026-08-05

Google announced a leadership overhaul at DeepMind on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping back from daily operations, Jeff Dean and several senior researchers departing to found a new lab, and Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over. Analysts at SemiAnalysis argue Google has effectively given up on competing for the best models and is instead selling its own chips and cloud capacity to rival labs. The reasoning about future model quality and revenue is the authors' estimate, not Google's statement.

What changed

Demis Hassabis led DeepMind and Google was widely counted among the top three AI labs alongside OpenAI and Anthropic.

  • Google Cloud revenue growth of 82% last quarter
  • Gemini first-party API tokens grew 38% in 2Q26 to 22B per minute, versus 60% growth in 1Q26
  • More than 20% of total TPU shipments from 3Q26 to 4Q27 sold directly to Anthropic
  • Estimated Gemini annual recurring revenue of $12B in 2Q26
  • Over $150B of TPU systems backlog

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