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Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year

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5 Aug
Was Demis demoted or promoted?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Do you think Demis wanted to step down as CEO to have more time for research and leading Isomorphic Labs (as implied by comments he and Sundar

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19 Jun
Nobel Winner John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1uadqbb/nobel_winner_john_jumper_to_leave_google_deepmind/"> <img alt="Nobel Winner John Jumper to Leave

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
5 Aug
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

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12 May
Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs announces Series B investment round with $2.1B in new funding

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1tb3wtl/demis_hassabiss_isomorphic_labs_announces_series/"> <img alt="Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs

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19 May
Demis Hassabis at Google I/O: "Artificial General Intelligence is just a few years away"

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Demis’ timeline on AGI has been shrinking and shrinking lately. I believe he would consistently say 5-10 years away the past year or 2. Then he

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1 Sept
Co-founder and CEO of Mechanize has left and joined Google DeepMind

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just a few weeks ago there were rumours of a $1.5B licensing deal between Google and Mechanize.. what do you make of it?</p> <p><a

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8 Aug
19 Jun
In the span of 3 days: Noam Shazeer (Transformer co-author) leaves Google for OpenAI, and John Jumper (Nobel laureate, AlphaFold lead) leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ua6gv6/in_the_span_of_3_days_noam_shazeer_transformer/"> <img alt="In the span of 3 days: Noam Shazeer

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