Demis Hassabis is stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to be its chair and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; Hassabis says AGI is "close at hand" (Axios)
Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman.
DeepMind dissolved the AlphaFold team after eight years of work, achieving significant milestones in predicting protein structures. However, researchers outside the company have continued the work and the program's data remains accessible. The team's breakup is seen as a natural outcome of DeepMind's strategy to demonstrate success in a specific benchmark, rather than a failure to achieve broader goals.
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- Why Google DeepMind broke up the AlphaFold team scientificamerican.com
