Hard to not read these departures as Google giving up on winning in AI vs OpenAI and Anthropic. GCP with its TPU + GPU infra seems like Google’s most valuable asset Google has in the AI race, and its partnerships with Anthropic+OpenAI+other AI companies to run on top of it…

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_Aug 5

Shocking news! Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean is leaving Google to start his own company. Sir Demis will be the new chief scientist.