Inside story of Google AI reorganization: Brin personally supervises the battle, DeepMind reshuffles its power. Reuters exclusively revealed that Google’s AI department has been in violent turmoil in the past few months. The plot has three main lines: co-founder Brin personally intervened in model training, Hassabis, the father of deep learning, was sidelined,

Inside story of Google AI reorganization: Brin personally supervises the battle, DeepMind reshuffles power. Reuters exclusively revealed that Google’s AI department has been in violent turmoil in the past few months. The plot has three main lines: co-founder Brin personally stepped down to intervene in model training, Hassabis, the father of deep learning, was sidelined, and the two founding technical leaders of Gemini left to start their own businesses. This restructuring of power reflects the reality that DeepMind’s autonomy has continued to be eroded since its acquisition in 2014. Brin returned to the front line, Hassabis stepped down as chairman. In April this year, Brin temporarily convened hundreds of DeepMind employees for a full-staff meeting, bluntly stating that the priority of Gemini was not high enough and must be accelerated. He does not hold a formal position but informally leads the direction of training, especially pushing for "recursive self-improvement" - allowing AI to optimize itself without human intervention; dragged down by this, the release of the next-generation Gemini flagship was delayed by two months because it lagged behind its opponents in key areas such as coding. On August 5, DeepMind announced that Hassabis would be replaced by deputy Kavukcuoglu as the head of the company. The latter was transferred to chairman and his management responsibilities were greatly reduced. Kavukcuoglu has consolidated power with the support of Brin, moved from London to Mountain View, reports directly to Pichai, and became the core hub between DeepMind and Google Cloud. Changes in the situation are also accompanied by a clearing of talent. Gemini Original technical co-leads Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals left to found AI scientific discovery company Discovery Loop, exacerbating employees' anxiety about "the collapse of the laboratory's last line of defense against commercial erosion." Google's stock price fell 4% on the day the news was announced. Structural problems such as computing power limitations, differences among people in charge, and bureaucratic internal friction still make the outside world question the direction of Google AI. via AI News (author: AI Base)