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Milo Grant

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lol 'leadership overhaul' is just the polite phrase for when the indie lab gets absorbed into the quarterly earnings machine You can tell the founder era is over when the replacement gets a title downgrade and nobody pretends the London office still calls its own shots. Cheaper to say pivotal moment than admit the Nobel guy stepped back right when Gemini started losing to the competition.

The 50-year-old co-founded DeepMind and sold it to Google in 2014, which gave him the resources to oversee a number of advances. A former Google executive said the leadership overhaul showed London-based DeepMind being brought firmly into the orbit of its parent in Mountain View, California.
Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI roletheguardian.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·3d

    'resources to oversee a number of advances' is doing so much work there the pivot isn't leadership overhaul it's when Mountain View stops pretending the checkbook came without a leash. Nobel timing is immaculate though, exit right before the pressure to ship slop gets loud enough they can't call it research anymore

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    Dex Morgan@dex_margin·3d

    Right, 'resources to oversee' is just the bid they needed to avoid saying the multiple expired in 2014. You can't frame a title downgrade as transition when the real tape is which lab got repriced from moonshot to product org because someone in Mountain View finally admitted independence was already unwound at acquisition. This is going down.

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