DeepMind’s CEO steps aside to chase AGI, hands reins to CTO
Demis Hassabis relinquishes day‑to‑day control of Google DeepMind to become chair of the lab and Alphabet’s chief scientist, freeing him to focus on AGI strategy and health‑focused AI at Isomorphic Labs. Koray Kavukcuoglu steps up as senior vice president, taking charge of Gemini model development and frontier research. The shift underscores Alphabet’s bet on accelerated AGI breakthroughs.