Archive · 13 Aug 2026

Google's Big AI Reshuffle: Brin Pushes Gemini, Hassabis Steps Aside

Google's Big AI Reshuffle: Brin Pushes Gemini, Hassabis Steps Aside

Google makes a super-smart computer program called Gemini.

A team called Google DeepMind works on making it smarter.

Lately, other companies like Anthropic and OpenAI made their programs faster and smarter, so Gemini fell behind.

Google's co-founder Sergey Brin told the team they need to work harder and catch up.

In August, Google changed the leaders of the DeepMind team.

Demis Hassabis stepped back to become the chair, and his helper Koray Kavukcuoglu became the new boss.

Two scientists who helped create Gemini left to start their own new company.

Google also delayed the new version of Gemini by two months because it was not good enough yet.

The changes made Google's stock go down, and some workers are worried about what happens next.

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