The biggest shakeup in Google’s AI history just happened. Demis Hassabis is stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to focus full time on AGI, which he says “is close at hand.” His new titles: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s CTO, takes over day to day, reporting directly to Sundar Pichai. The market didn’t love it. Alphabet fell over 4% on the news, with Gemini’s flagship model still unreleased after a planned June launch and pressure mounting from OpenAI and Anthropic. He’s spent 20 years chasing this, from chess prodigy to Nobel Prize to DeepMind. Now he says it’s a few years away. So which is it: Google freeing its best minds to chase AGI, or its AI brain trust walking out the door? Follow chatgptricks so you don’t miss what’s next. #ai #google #tech #demishassabis #agi