Posts Claim Gemini Loses Dean and Hassabis
Researchers and founders on X discuss reported exits by Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis from Gemini.
Nathan Lambert posted that Gemini faces major restructuring with Jeff Dean out and Demis Hassabis no longer CEO. Bindu Reddy described a huge exodus from Google AI, citing compute shortages and sales to Anthropic. Lucas Beyer and others amplified the commentary. Tae Kim quoted SemiAnalysis stating DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab because of reinforcement learning team departures and poor compute allocation. Mike Isaac referenced an internal Google memo from Sundar Pichai on Hassabis's departure. Joshua Achiam noted the pattern of talent moves. No first-party confirmations appear in the posts.
Major restructuring at Gemini (Dean out, Hassabis no longer CEO). This story will be studied forever as the incumbant with all the advantages not being able to get going. P.s. OpenAI accomplished their original goal.
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Bindu Reddy@bindureddyOMG!! Literally Everyone Is Gone From Google AI 😲 Looks like there is a huge exodus from Gemini and Google AI. Jeff Dean left and Demis is stepping down They team has been facing a huge compute crunch and Google is selling compute to their direct competitor - Anthropic!…
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JA Joshua Achiam@jachiam0Re: Demis, Jeff Dean moves: I think a fair few folks are treating this as bearish for GDM and that is imho a misread. The prospect of reaching AGI and ASI is beginning to look increasingly overdetermined. Being in operational leadership roles to preside over an overdetermined…
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JA Joshua Achiam@jachiam0The smarter they are the earlier they will do it, too.
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HB Herbie Bradley@herbiebradleyMy guess is that a lot of people will converge on "the next bet is using AGI to achieve economic transformation" of some sort. Researcher mindset lab leaders will, and are, choosing AI for science here. Product mindset lab leaders will choose directions aiming to use AI to…
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⿻A ⿻ Andrew Trask@iamtrask@herbiebradley @jachiam0 this feels like the offramp from from AGI as an ideology.
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