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

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

tosh · 1785946576 · focus · HN ↗
can anyone with corporate background decipher if that is good for demis or not?
1. colesantiago · 1785946901 · focus · HN ↗
  It is good for Demis and Google overall.
  This is a promotion for Demis and this could be a path for Demis to be CEO of Alphabet in the future in the AI era.
  Google already invested in Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean, Orol Vinyals, Quoc Le and Sanjay Ghemawat's company), so what is happening is still a win in investment terms.
  The question is about Sundar's future at Google, he is a mobile era CEO at Alphabet and I would hazard a guess he will probably step down in less than 3 years.
  1. lokar · 1785949073 · focus · HN ↗
    My impression, inside and out of G, was that Sundar (and Ruth) were about scaling down R&D expenses (as a fraction of revenue), and focusing on exploiting the monopolies.
    Perhaps now there could be a shift back to investing in R&D to get fresh monopolies.

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