# Google Moves DeepMind's Coding Team to California as Kavukcuoglu Takes Operational Control

Demis Hassabis becomes chair and Alphabet chief scientist, and Jeff Dean has left after 27 years to found a startup.

- Published: 2026-08-16T06:12:17.236Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-16/google-moves-deepmind-s-coding-team-to-california-as-kavukcu
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/google-deepmind-koray-kavukcuoglu.html), [TIME](https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/google-deepmind-ai-demis-hassabis/), [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/how-stalled-models-missed-deadlines-and-staff-burnout-lead-to-the-unraveling-of-googles-deepmind/)

Google reorganized the leadership of its artificial intelligence (AI) lab on August 5. Demis Hassabis moved to chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu took day-to-day control as senior vice president…

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