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

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

  1. gandalfgeek · · focus · HN ↗
    Wow. Jeff and Sanjay both departing. Truly end of a golden era.

    There is an entire cohort of work-optional very senior engineers for whom one of the last reasons for hanging on was "at least Jeff and Sanjay are around".

    1. oblio · · focus · HN ↗
      Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years.
      1. swat535 · · focus · HN ↗
        > Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years.

        They have plenty of great tech for consumers right now: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android,..

        You can perhaps argue that search might suffer because of AI but they've done a great job scaling horizontally into many verticals.

        I don't think Google is going anywhere.

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