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Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO for Alphabet role
“He announced that he's stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind. He's also stepping up into the role of Google DeepMind chairman, and he will also be Alphabet's chief scientist.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu promoted to lead DeepMind without a CEO title
“Google DeepMind CTO, and Google's chief AI architect, Kore Kovu, Kovu, I can't pronounce it, I'm sorry is being promoted to SVP and will lead DeepMind, so Kore is now running DeepMind, but interestingly, there's no new CEO of DeepMind”
Coogan: OpenAI and DeepMind both scored 35 of 42 on 2025 IMO
“Both teams got a 35 out of 42. There was a bunch of back and forth because OpenAI validated with former IMO gold medalists while Google's result was graded by the official rubric that year, which is internal to the organization.”
Hassabis paper advocates for pre-release frontier AI evaluation and standards body
“The last substantial piece that Demis put out was called The Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of New Age, in which he argues for a frontier AI standards body that evaluates frontier models before they're released for risks associated with superintelli…”
Coogan: Genie 3 simulates real places using Google Street View imagery
“You can now simulate real places by grounding Genie three experiences with street view imagery.”
Harris: Prime Intellect open-sourced DeepMind's DiLoCo framework as OpenDiLoCo
“Basically what they did is Google deep mind released a paper called like D loco which stands for like distributed low communications framework. And they implemented that, but in like an open source way, like they called it open D loco such that like you can tr…”