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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

818 points · 871 comments · colesantiago

  1. tacomonstrous · · focus · HN ↗
    Everyone commenting here seems to take this to mean he's leaving Google, when that's not what the article says.
    1. brokencode · · focus · HN ↗
      Clearly his influence is going to be less though.

      And most likely this is a calculated step to avoid freaking people out, even though he is effectively leaving.

      1. baq · · focus · HN ↗
        Not at all clear.

        To me it looks like he’ll be in a position to actually be unhobble DeepMind - reminder DM was sitting on a ChatGPT product for a whole year before ChatGPT got released (LMChat) and Google didn’t let them release it.

      2. VirusNewbie · · focus · HN ↗
        What? His influence is going to be larger.
    2. paxys · · focus · HN ↗
      I’m willing to bet a lot of money that the “chairman” role is a contractual obligation and he be will be gone the day it expires.
    3. k1rd · · focus · HN ↗
      omg, you are right, he is leaving google!
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