The People Who Built the Plumbing Are Leaving the Room
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years and Demis Hassabis is moving to an AGI-focused role — a handoff of narrative authority, not just an org chart change.
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years and Demis Hassabis is moving to an AGI-focused role — a handoff of narrative authority, not just an org chart change.
Demis Hassabis told staff AGI is close, then stepped back from running Google DeepMind to focus on AI drug discovery at Isomorphic Labs. What that choice signals.
An AI-generated entry won a $25,000 DeepMind Kaggle prize meant to measure AGI progress, and the community's revolt reveals a deeper crisis of trust.