Google's AI Leadership Shakeup: Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO

Demis Hassabis is stepping down as Google DeepMind's leader to become its chair and Alphabet's chief scientist. Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over as SVP of DeepMind, while Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat leave to form an AI-focused public benefit corporation, Discovery Loop.

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Anthropic Begins Assembling Team to Develop Its Own AI Chips

Anthropic has started forming a department to develop its own AI accelerators, aiming to design models and hardware in parallel for fast and efficient operation, according to Business Insider. The company is reportedly considering Samsung as a manufacturing partner. Anthropic seeks to scale beyond partnerships with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD to meet demand for its Claude models.

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