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

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atleastoptimal · 1785947160 · focus · HN ↗
I think there's one weirdly simple reason DeepMind isn't doing as well as OpenAI and Anthropic. I may be wrong on this.
OpenAI and Anthropic went from tiny startups to huge companies. As a consequence the stock options/RSU's offered to the employees paid off a far higher percentage ROI than any stock options a DeepMind (and thus Google) employee would get (since Google is already huge). This disincentivizes people who truly believe in the economically transformative power of AI to work at Google since their benefits will be capped by Google being large + having public company obligations.
1. elAhmo · 1786018089 · focus · HN ↗
  DeepMind is just a part of Google which does research stuff, and Google is a massive company that does loads of things but mostly sells ads.
  OpenAI and Anthropic are in a completely different game, their primary business model is making a product out of advancements that come out of DeepMind and co.

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