Google appointed Koray Kavukcuoglu as the new Head of DeepMind

On August 12, according to CNBC, Google announced the appointment of Koray Kavukcuoglu as Senior Vice President of Deepmind, reporting directly to the CEO of Google, CEO Sundar Pichai, with overall responsibility for Gemini model development, front-line AI research and the Gemini application and development team. The former CEO Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, was transferred to chair of the board. Kavukcuoglu joined DeepMind in 2012 as CTO and Google's chief AI architect, and the promotion was interpreted by analysts as an important signal of Google's shift in strategic focus from academic research to product landing and forward model competitiveness。