Podbit · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's internal war between Jeff Dean's Google Brain and Demis Hassabis's DeepMind ended with DeepMind winning when they merged under the Gemini umbrella. Now both Dean and Hassabis have stepped back from day-to-day operations, and Alex Wissner-Gross predicts whoever leads DeepMind next is the heir apparent to CEO of Google itself.
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Peter Diamandis walks through the week's Google news: Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, handing operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu who now reports directly to Sundar Pichai [1] — Peter Diamandis "Google: 5% stock drop on Demis/Jeff Dean news: Alphabet shares fell 5% when it was announced that Demis Hassabis was stepping down as CEO o…" 1:32:50 . Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist for 27 years and the man who built the infrastructure beneath modern Google, is leaving to co-found Discovery Loop — a public benefit corporation focused on recursive AI self-improvement, funded immediately by Vinod Khosla. Alphabet shares fell 5%. Alex Wissner-Gross's hot take: this isn't about building RSI safely outside Google — it's the aftermath of an organizational knife fight between Jeff Dean's Google Brain and Demis Hassabis's DeepMind, which Demis won when the two groups merged under Gemini. DeepMind is now eating Google from the inside out, and Alex predicts whoever leads DeepMind next will be the heir apparent to Google CEO. The group argues Google's annual Gemini release cadence, cultural AI safetyism, and inability to retain talent have cost it the frontier model race, with its consolation prize being hyperscaler services to the frontier labs that beat it.
Alphabet shares fell 5% when it was announced that Demis Hassabis was stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind and Jeff Dean was departing after 27 years.
Emad Mostaque wrote a letter to Google management three years ago saying open-sourcing Gemini would make them win. The group agrees: open-sourcing Gemini, tying it to Google TPUs and GCP, would be the move of the century — turning Google from a struggling frontier lab into the compute empire behind every open-weight AI on earth.
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