A "pioneering scientist" is leaving Google's AI lab. The lab will have a new director.
Google has lost several AI specialists in recent weeks, all of whom have left to join competitors
Google DeepMind has released the Gemini AI / Photo: gguy / Shutterstock.com
Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence lab DeepMind, is leaving the company after 27 years. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced this in a blog post on the company’s website. CNBC called Dean “a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence.”
In addition, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will step down from his position and instead become the lab's chairman and a senior scientist at Alphabet, Pichai said.
Alphabet shares reacted negatively to the news: they fell by about 4% during trading on August 5.
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