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Google announced on Aug. 5, 2026 that Demis Hassabis is moving from chief executive of Google DeepMind to chair of the unit and chief scientist of Alphabet, remaining CEO of Isomorphic Labs and advising from DeepMind's Platform 37 offices in London. Koray Kavukcuoglu, previously the unit's CTO and a 13-year DeepMind veteran, becomes senior vice president reporting to Sundar Pichai, with responsibility for Gemini development, frontier research, the Gemini app and the next major model, Gemini 4. Jeff Dean, Google's 30th employee, is leaving after 27 years with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating experimental research, backed by Khosla Ventures, Radical Ventures and Alphabet, with Google supplying compute for its first year; terms were undisclosed. Alphabet shares fell more than 5%, trading at $362.31 midday in New York.

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