The Architects Leave the Building: Hassabis Steps Back, Jeff Dean Exits After 27 Years, and Google Funds the Startup Automating Science - August 10, 2026

The Architects Leave the Building: Hassabis Steps Back, Jeff Dean Exits After 27 Years, and Google Funds the Startup Automating Science On August 5, Sundar Pichai told Google DeepMind teams that Demis Hassabis is becoming Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, handing day to day leadership to Koray Kavukcuoglu. Buried in the same memo: after what Pichai called an incredible 27 year run, Jeff Dean is leaving Google, joined by Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Gemini co lead Orio...