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Waterfall chart of Google AI talent flow in the August 2026 shakeup: 6 key named leaders at start, 4 depart to Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals), 2 remain (Demis Hassabis, Koray Kavukcuoglu). Google AI leadership shakeup.

Google AI leadership shakeup signals frontier trouble

Google's AI leadership shakeup moves Hassabis to AGI research and loses Jeff Dean plus three researchers to a startup. The frontier model gap widens.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 8, 2026