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

814 points · 863 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. squidbeak · · focus · HN ↗
      Gemini 3 Pro was legitimately frontier and released 8 1/2 months ago, not 14.
      1. egillie · · focus · HN ↗
        I remember after that release everyone was saying "well obviously google is going to win this, we all knew it, they have the data and the infrastructure"
        1. TacticalCoder · · focus · HN ↗
          Google owns 15% of Anthropic. They'll be winning either way.
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