Google taps Kavukcuoglu to accelerate its frontier AI race
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Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect, is promoted to SVP to lead Gemini model development and frontier AI, replacing Demis Hassabis as CEO. The move shifts Google toward an execution‑ and product‑oriented strategy to close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, accelerate Gemini releases, bolster coding tools via initiatives like Code Strike, and keep DeepMind as a key driver under Kavukcuoglu’s leadership, with Hassabis becoming chair.
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