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Behind the exit of DeepMind’s CEO: low morale, a talent exodus, and model delays

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On Wednesday, at the end of the day in London, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis had some news for employees.

Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and the lab’s longtime steward, was giving up the CEO title and moving to a chairman role, they said. Minutes later, the news broke that longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several other prominent researchers were leaving the company.

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