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DeepMind changes hands; four senior researchers leave
Google announced on August 5 that Demis Hassabis moves from running Google DeepMind to chairing it, handing the lab to its CTO, Koray Kavukcuoglu. Hassabis adds Alphabet chief scientist to his titles and keeps running Isomorphic Labs, the drug-discovery company. Four senior Google researchers announced the same day that they were leaving to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation: Jeff Dean, at the company since 1999; Sanjay Ghemawat, his longtime collaborator; Oriol Vinyals, a DeepMind research VP; and Quoc Le, a cofounder of Google Brain. The company says it will automate whole experimental loops — running and iterating thousands of experiments — in areas like drug discovery and chip design. Alphabet is a founding investor and cloud partner. Dean, Google
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