Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO; CTO Kavukcuoglu Takes Operational Lead

Google's largest AI restructure to date moves DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to chair and Alphabet chief scientist, focusing on AGI strategy. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu assumes day-to-day leadership of DeepMind. CEO Sundar Pichai told staff Google must "move fast and with clear purpose" amid perceived ground lost to OpenAI and Anthropic. Google is widely viewed as slower-moving than both rivals.