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Yeah I actually read this more as them scrambling because Jeff Dean is leaving? Because that is the role he is taking up

• sailingparrot 1mo ago
  There is no way a Chief Scientist (essentially IC) role is more important than leading the whole of DeepMind, 6000 people strong, working on the most important product for the future of Alphabet. This means Demis wanted a change and to work on other things, it's not Google wanting this.
  • gowld 1mo ago
    Or Sundar wanted Demis to change to work on other things.
  • dwroberts 1mo ago
    Dean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explains better in its lede text than what I just wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researc...