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Google is overhauling its AI leadership.<\/p>\n

CEO Sundar Pichai said in a post on Wednesday that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will step down from the role to become Alphabet’s chief scientist, focusing on long-term AI research. Google veteran Jeff Dean is also leaving to launch a new initiative with fellow engineering leader Sanjay Ghemawat.<\/p>\n

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The shake-up comes as Google faces mounting pressure from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic in key areas such as AI coding. Alphabet shares fell as much as 5% following the announcement.<\/p>\n

Here is what the smartest voices in business and tech are saying about Google’s AI executive shake-up.<\/p>\n

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Sebastian Mallaby, author of ‘The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence’<\/h2>\n
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Sebastian Mallaby, a British journalist and author who once wrote a biography of Hassabis and DeepMind, said in a on X that the change is “a formalization of something that had been happening informally.”<\/p>\n

“Demis has been playing the role of Google AI statesman for some time, and Koray Kavukcuoglu has been running Google DeepMind research for some time,” Mallaby said.<\/p>\n

“He cared enough about safety that he fought a three-year battle with Alphabet to get external oversight over DeepMind’s AI deployment,” Mallaby added of Hassabis. “This next chapter of his career is a return to that side of his work.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist<\/h2>\n
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Vinod Khosla, a billionaire entrepreneur and a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, wrote in a post on X that Google has been “the real source of AI acceleration,” from developing Waymo cars when most people were skeptics to investing heavily in AI.<\/p>\n

“Lots of research in universities but this team, including Sundar, Larry & Sergey, deserve full credit for believing, investing and accelerating it,” said Khosla on Wednesday. “Huge impact.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Ben Pouladian, founder of BEP Research<\/h2>\n
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Pouladian, the founder of BEP Research, an AI infrastructure research firm,<\/strong>said that the change in structure means that Google “finally wants to play to win.”<\/p>\n

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“My read: putting Amin Vahdat, the architect behind Google’s TPU infrastructure, closer to the center is about streamlining the whole machine,” Pouladian wrote on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Less internal politics. Better compute allocation. One AI strategy,” Pouladian added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Zvi Mowshowitz, writer and founder of Balsa Research<\/h2>\n
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Zvi Mowshowitz, founder of Balsa Research, an AI policy research agency, said on X on Wednesday that Google’s shift doesn’t bode well for AI safety.<\/p>\n

“Big moves at Google DeepMind,” Mowshowitz said. “Early read is this is Demis being ‘kicked upstairs’ and allowed to work on his special projects. Also Jeff Dean is stepping away.”<\/p>\n

“Presumably this puts the final nail in the coffin of ‘DeepMind has meaningful safety practices, assurances or independence from the rest of Google,'” Mowshowitz added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Tae Kim, veteran tech journalist and author of First Adopter<\/h2>\n
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Tae Kim, a veteran tech journalist and author of the bestselling AI and semiconductor newsletter First Adopter<\/em>, said it may be “Game over” for DeepMind.<\/p>\n

“Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis are the two most important AI executives at Google,” said Kim in a post on X on Wednesday. “Jeff is leaving and Demis is stepping down from day-to-day operational leadership at DeepMind.”<\/p>\n

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