Google makes high-level leadership changes in its artificial intelligence division

WORLD06.08.2026
Google makes high-level leadership changes in its artificial intelligence division

US-based technology company Google has made changes to the senior leadership team of its artificial intelligence division, Google DeepMind.
elchi reports that Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced the changes in the Google DeepMind teams on his social media platform account on X.
Pichai stated that Demis Hassabis, one of the founders of Google DeepMind, will serve as the CEO of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs.
Pichai noted that in his new role, Hassabis will dedicate his time and focus to shaping the future of artificial general intelligence and scientific discovery, adding that this work is of great importance to Alphabet and humanity.
Pichai also announced that Koray Kavukcuoglu, Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Architect at Google DeepMind, will serve as Vice President of Google DeepMind.
Pichai stated that Kavukcuoglu will be responsible for model development processes, cutting-edge AI research, and the Gemini application and development teams, adding: “Koray has been with Google DeepMind for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in his field. He built our deep learning team and led significant breakthroughs like WaveNet and DQN. Google DeepMind is in safe hands.”

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