Sundar Pichai announces Google DeepMind leadership changes

Pichai's tweet of 5 Aug 2026 (16:01 UTC) links his internal memo "The next chapter of our AI momentum" on blog.google. It says Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet and keep leading Isomorphic Labs, so he can focus on shaping the future of AGI. The linked memo also names Koray Kavukcuoglu SVP running Google DeepMind and announces Jeff Dean's departure. Press (Axios, CNBC, TIME, Fortune) tied the reshuffle to Gemini 3.5 Pro delays and a talent exodus. Verified via syndication (author sundarpichai, created 2026-08-05, ~7.9k likes). The URL was found embedded in Search Engine Roundtable's coverage.

Just shared some changes we’re making to the teams at @GoogleDeepMind.

@DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs. He’ll be able to dedicate his time and focus on shaping the future of AGI and scientific discovery. It’s work that is vitally important to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t imagine a better person than Demis to do it. He’ll stay closely connected to Koray and the GDM teams.

@Koraykv will become the SVP, @GoogleDeepMind, responsible for all aspects of model development, GDM research, and @Geminiapp & dev teams. Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands!

Excited for this next chapter. You can read my note along with the message Demis sent to @GoogleDeepMind here: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

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