Hassabis handed day-to-day operations at Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu this month, moving into a chairman and chief scientist role instead. He said the shift was deliberate: freeing him to focus on strategic AGI work and advise his successor, not a step back from the company.
Source: Fortune: Demis Hassabis Steps Down, Google DeepMind AI Shakeup, 2026 →