
DeepMind founder and AI expert, Demis Hassabis, is reportedly set for a larger role within Google, potentially leading the company’s AI efforts. This comes amid the intensifying global race for AI dominance.
What Happened: Hassabis, who sold DeepMind to Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) in 2014, has been increasingly involved in Google’s AI operations. After years of maintaining DeepMind’s independence, Google merged it with its internal AI initiatives in 2023, thrusting Hassabis into a central role, according to a Business Insider report.