GOOGLE'S NEW AI BOSS INHERITS A RACE TO CATCH OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC

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Koray Kavukcuoglu is becoming head of Google DeepMind. He will report directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and oversee Gemini model development, frontier AI research, and the Gemini app and developer teams. Kavukcuoglu was previously DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect. The promotion shows that Google is prioritizing execution over deep research.