Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit
Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations without the CEO title, and all Gemini development is moving to the Bay Area. Internally, Google is apparently struggling with serious problems training frontier models, even as its cloud business generates billions. The question is whether the company is deliberately betting on infrastructure or simply can't ca
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Published: 9 August 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 10 August 2026
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