Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his position as part of a wider leadership restructure.
As a result, he will become chair of DeepMind and take on the role of chief scientist at parent company, Alphabet, while DeepMind’s current CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will become senior vice-president and lead the AI research lab.
Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 before its acquisition by Google in 2014, has been a key figure in AI development.
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In a company memo, Hassabis, said: “With this backdrop, I’ve decided that now is the right time for me to hand over my day-to-day operational responsibilities at GDM, so that I have the time and space to focus on the big picture and help influence what is to come to the best of my ability.
“I will be taking on a new strategic role as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and I’m excited to announce that Koray will be stepping up to lead GDM as SVP of Google DeepMind, in addition to his role as Chief AI Architect of Google.”
In his new role, he will also increase his focus on Isomorphic Labs, DeepMind’s drug discovery spin-off, where he said the team is making “extremely rapid and promising progress” to accelerate its mission.
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