Hassabis Moves to Alphabet Chief Scientist Role; Kavukcuoglu Steps Up at DeepMind

Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind to become Alphabet's chief scientist, Axios reported August 5. DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu succeeds him as senior VP reporting to Sundar Pichai. Hassabis will also continue running Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet's AI-driven drug-discovery spinoff.