Google is combining DeepMind and Google Research’s Brain team under Demis Hassabis on 20 April. Google Research continues separately, reporting to James Manyika.
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Jeff Dean becomes Google’s chief scientist, reporting to Sundar Pichai and serving both research organisations. His first strategic project is a series of multimodal models.
Hassabis’s employee note adds another layer: Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead a scientific board overseeing the combined unit’s research direction and progress. Its membership isn’t final yet. Eli Collins becomes product vice-president; Zoubin Ghahramani joins research leadership under Kavukcuoglu.
Together, the announcements distinguish three responsibilities: running the combined lab, coordinating science across both organisations, and overseeing its research programme. They don’t put all Google research under Hassabis.
Google Research retains work including algorithms, privacy, quantum computing and responsible AI. Neither note gives the new models a release date.
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