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Sundar Pichai Elevates Demis Hassabis To Google DeepMind Chair And Alphabet Chief Scientist

Sundar Pichai announced the shift so Hassabis can focus on AGI strategy and scientific work.

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Sundar Pichai posted that Demis Hassabis is moving into the role of Chair at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet. Hassabis keeps his position leading Isomorphic Labs. Pichai described the change as a way to give Hassabis more time on long-term AGI development and scientific discovery. Several replies and reposts interpreted the move as Hassabis stepping down from the CEO title at DeepMind, with some mentioning other executive departures, though those details appear only in secondary commentary.

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Sundar Pichai Elevates Demis Hassabis To Google DeepMind Chair And Alphabet Chief Scientist

Sundar Pichai announced the shift so Hassabis can focus on AGI strategy and scientific work.

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Sundar Pichai posted that Demis Hassabis is moving into the role of Chair at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet. Hassabis keeps his position leading Isomorphic Labs. Pichai described the change as a way to give Hassabis more time on long-term AGI development and scientific discovery. Several replies and reposts interpreted the move as Hassabis stepping down from the CEO title at DeepMind, with some mentioning other executive departures, though those details appear only in secondary commentary.

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TagsDemis Hassabis Google DeepMind Sundar Pichai

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@sundarpichaiJust shared some changes we’re making to the teams at @GoogleDeepMind. @DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs. He’ll be able to dedicate his time and focus on shaping the future of AGI and scientific discovery. It’s work that is vitally important to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t imagine a better person than Demis to do it. He’ll stay closely connected to Koray and the GDM teams. @Koraykv will become the SVP, @GoogleDeepMind, responsible for all aspects of model development, GDM research, and @Geminiapp & dev teams. Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands! Excited for this next chapter. You can read my note along with the message Demis sent to @GoogleDeepMind here: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

@demishassabisI’ve been working towards AGI my whole life, and as we enter this pivotal moment, I’m stepping into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet. This will allow me to focus on long-term strategy, and accelerating scientific breakthroughs, including leaning into my work at Isomorphic to help cure disease. I’m excited that @koraykv will be stepping up to lead GDM as SVP, alongside @joshwoodward and our exec team. I could not be more excited and confident about our amazing next chapter! 🚀 https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum

@altcap@sundarpichai @GoogleDeepMind @demishassabis @IsomorphicLabs 🚀🚀

@koraykvThanks, @sundarpichai, honored to lead GDM into this next chapter. This is such a pivotal moment for us as we double down on our Gemini models, frontier AI research, and the products we build for our users and partners. I want to congratulate @demishassabis on his new role as Chief Scientist of Alphabet and Chair of Google DeepMind. His vision has always been central to our work, and I’m excited to keep working together as we build AGI 🚀

@JackK@demishassabis Congratulations on a historic run and for all that you have done to guide and accelerate the world toward AGI. It's been an honor learning from you and I'm excited to see what comes next!

@AndrewCurran_Shocking news! Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean is leaving Google to start his own company. Sir Demis will be the new chief scientist.

@yonashavthis makes me pretty sad, Demis always seemed like a good and responsible leader

@MikeIsaacwowie woo — demis hassabis out at CEO to boot. becoming "chairman" fascinating https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai

@mgsieglerView post on X

@altryneWhat is going on at Google, whoah! Demis is stepping down (from DeepMind CEO), Jeff Dean and Oriyol Vinyals both are leaving after (checks notes, 27 years for Jeff?), and Demis becomes Chief Scientist of all of Alphabet 😵‍💫

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