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

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

  1. GodelNumbering · · focus · HN ↗
    So, in last several months, all the prominent names Google lost: Demis Hassabis (technically still with google but these things are usually presented with a spin), Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, David Silver, Denny Zhou, Fernando Pereira, Alex Turner

    And all the prominent names Google gained: NULL

    Combined with no gemini frontier GA release in about 14 months. You have to have created an environment pretty hostile to innovation for this to happen

    1. hintymad · · focus · HN ↗
      This funny post reads surreal, but it may carry some truth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273?lang=en
      1. JumpCrisscross · · focus · HN ↗
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;signulll&#x2F;status&#x2F;2067446889956430273
        1. snthpy · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes, but now we have AI to summarize tweets.
        2. yyaakkqq · · focus · HN ↗
          I wish their deep tech teams moved as fast as the privacy violating ones.
        3. bjackman · · focus · HN ↗
          this prompted me to search and find: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;xcancel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;xcancel&#x2F;
        4. ChuckMcM · · focus · HN ↗
          In my opinion it carries much truth. Somewhere in Google&#x27;s archives there is a message I sent to the OC that said, &quot;The department of philosophy does not ship solutions to real problems, that is why there has never been a successful company that insisted the world adapt to its philosophy.&quot; Google was, even then, blind to what they were missing.
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