A corporate reshuffle, meaning a reordering of who holds which executive roles and what each is responsible for, is underway at the top of Google's artificial intelligence operations. The search giant announced Wednesday that Jeff Dean, its chief scientist, is exiting, and that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of DeepMind, Google's AI research division. The two moves arrived in a single announcement.
The roles now changing hands
Chief scientist is not a traditional management title. The person in that role shapes a technology company's research agenda and is often the name that academic and engineering communities look to when assessing where an organization's technical priorities are pointed. Jeff Dean has occupied that seat at Google.
DeepMind is Google's AI research division. Demis Hassabis has led it as chief executive. His departure from the CEO role leaves the division needing new leadership, separate from whatever Dean's exit requires Google to address.
What Google said, and what it did not
Google framed both changes as part of a broader reshuffling of its AI divisions, with the announcement coming on Wednesday. The company gave no detail about who will step into either role. No new organizational chart has been disclosed.
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