A massive leadership shakeup sees DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis exit the CEO role and legendary engineer Jeff Dean depart to launch a startup. The twin departures, part of a wider talent exodus, sent Alphabet's stock tumbling.
The tape The Artificial Intelligence Show · Aug 11
“So Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced this past week that Demis Assabis is stepping out of the CEO role at Google DeepMind to become chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet while continuing his role as founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs, which is the drug discovery company that spun out of DeepMind.”
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The AI Daily Brief · What the Heck is Graph Engineering?Aug 10
OpenAI has paused the release of its next model, Astra, after internal evaluations found it could potentially develop zero-day exploits. CEO Sam Altman said they "need a little bit longer to do this safely."
The AI Daily Brief · Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against AnthropicJul 28
CCP operatives are reportedly warning China's top AI firms that resisting domestic chips is treason. Meanwhile, reports suggest Chinese companies are accessing restricted NVIDIA GPUs through data centers in Southeast Asia.