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There is no way a Chief Scientist (essentially IC) role is more important than leading the whole of DeepMind, 6000 people strong, working on the most important
by sailingparrot 2mo ago
There is no way a Chief Scientist (essentially IC) role is more important than leading the whole of DeepMind, 6000 people strong, working on the most important product for the future of Alphabet.
This means Demis wanted a change and to work on other things, it's not Google wanting this.
- dwroberts 2mo agoDean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explains better in its lede text than what I just wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researc...
- gowld 2mo agoOr Sundar wanted Demis to change to work on other things.