Four People Left and Took the Loop With Them
Yesterday afternoon, inside about two hours, Demis Hassabis moved from CEO of Google DeepMind to Chair, Koray Kavukcuoglu took over the lab, and Jeff Dean announced his last day at Google after 27 years — along with a new company, Discovery Loop, founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. Today's episode starts there and works outward: what it means that the people who built Google's infrastructure think the next thing to build is a machine that runs research on itself.
Google's announcement of the DeepMind leadership change — presented as continuity, with Hassabis staying on as…
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