Google AI - A shake-up in the management ranks of the tech giant, unveiled on Thursday, belatedly fixes a flaw in the company’s artificial intelligence organization, one that had constrained its ability to compete with ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI.  

CEO Sundar Pichai today moved the team behind Google’s Gemini AI chatbot from its search and ads unit to its DeepMind AI research team.  

Previously, they combined Google’s two #Artificial Intelligence  research efforts under DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis but didn’t give Hassabis oversight of how AI products got rolled out. 

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/17/google-gemini-app-deepmind-reorg

Exclusive: Google moves Gemini app team to DeepMind unit

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Google AI - A shake-up in the management ranks of the tech giant, unveiled on Thursday, belatedly fixes a flaw in the company’s artificial intelligence organization, one that had constrained its ability to compete with ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI.    CEO Sundar Pichai today moved the team behind Google’s Gemini AI chatbot from its search and ads unit to its DeepMind AI research team.    Previously, they combined Google’s two #Artificial Intelligence  research efforts under DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis but didn’t give Hassabis oversight of how AI products got rolled out.   https://www.axios.com/2024/10/17/google-gemini-app-deepmind-reorg

Sam Mendoza

Still an issue?!
From NotebookLM to Pixel, internal conflicts are impacting Google's ability to bring innovative AI products to market. Can the tech giant overcome these challenges to catch up with OpenAI?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-ai-efforts-marred-by-turf-disputes?offer=exp-ann-25&utm_campaign=Expansion%3A+Google+AI&utm_content=7163&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=4897&rc=gzsl71

Still an issue?! From NotebookLM to Pixel, internal conflicts are impacting Google's ability to bring innovative AI products to market. Can the tech giant overcome these challenges to catch up with OpenAI?  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-ai-efforts-marred-by-turf-disputes?offer=exp-ann-25&utm_campaign=Expansion%3A+Google+AI&utm_content=7163&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=4897&rc=gzsl71

Google scored a rare hit with an artificial intelligence–powered product last fall: NotebookLM, which helps people summarize documents, even generating podcasts from its results. The podcast feature drew a glowing review from The Wall Street Journal. After the product’s release, CEO Sundar ...

Google’s AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes

Jerome Cody

Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/deepminds-demis-hassabis-and-john-jumper-scoop-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-alphafold/

Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.    https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/deepminds-demis-hassabis-and-john-jumper-scoop-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-alphafold/

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have scooped the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AlphaFold work.

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper scoop Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold | TechCrunch

Bobby

On the search front, I believe this was the ads exec who was put in charge of search which resulted in search becoming noticeably less useful to the user base while ad revenue went up (because getting good results for the user query was no longer the objective).

Was hoping this was him getting the boot for that (and the inevitable GE type result down the line for search), but not the case - promotion.

Here's the single most important piece of context regarding who Prabhakar Raghavan is and what he has done is this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

They also shifted the exec in charge of Search and ads (the core business!).  You have to wonder whether the departing search leader, Prabhakar Raghavan, changed jobs because he was losing Gemini or whether Pichai took advantage of the personnel change to make a long-needed shift.

https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2024/10/19/google-names-prabhakar-raghavan-as-chief-technologist-456691/

They also shifted the exec in charge of Search and ads (the core business!).  You have to wonder whether the departing search leader, Prabhakar Raghavan, changed jobs because he was losing Gemini or whether Pichai took advantage of the personnel change to make a long-needed shift.  https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2024/10/19/google-names-prabhakar-raghavan-as-chief-technologist-456691/

Indian American senior executive moves up from leading Google’s search engine and ads products, company's core moneymaking business

Google names Prabhakar Raghavan as chief technologist amid AI push

On the search front, I believe this was the ads exec who was put in charge of search which resulted in search becoming noticeably less useful to the user base while ad revenue went up (because getting good results for the user query was no longer the objective).  Was hoping this was him getting the boot for that (and the inevitable GE type result down the line for search), but not the case - promotion.  Here's the single most important piece of context regarding who Prabhakar Raghavan is and what he has done is this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Sam Mendoza

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.