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Google is shaking up its AI leadership, with some of the company’s top experts in the field moving roles or leaving. Shares of the tech giant fell on the news.<\/p>\n

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Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of DeepMind to take on a broader role at Alphabet, Google’s parent company.<\/p>\n

Hassabis, one of the pioneers of modern AI, will become chief scientist of Alphabet and chair of Google DeepMind, CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Dean, a leading AI researcher who’s been at Google for 27 years, is leaving to start his own initiative with Sanjay Ghemawat, another top tech leader at the search giant.<\/p>\n

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