Kavukcuoglu Takes Over Google DeepMind to Close AI Gap
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- Koray Kavukcuoglu is set to become the incoming head of Google DeepMind after joining the lab in 2012, and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research.
- Kavukcuoglu faces intense pressure to close Google's AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, per CNBC.
Why it matters: A 12-year DeepMind insider is now leading the unit behind Gemini at a moment CNBC explicitly frames Google as trailing OpenAI and Anthropic on performance — the promotion makes one engineer the accountable figure for closing that competitive gap.
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