Google appoints Koray Kavukcuoglu as new head of DeepMind
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www.cnbc.com
According to CNBC, Google announced the appointment of Koray Kavukcuoglu as Senior Vice President of DeepMind, reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and fully responsible for Gemini model development, frontier AI research, and the Gemini applications and developer team. DeepMind co-founder and former CEO Demis Hassabis will transition to Chairman of the Board. Kavukcuoglu joined DeepMind in 2012, previously serving as CTO and Google's Chief AI Architect. Analysts interpret this promotion as a significant signal that Google is shifting its strategic focus from academic research to product deployment and enhancing the competitiveness of frontier models.
