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Hassabis steps back from DeepMind day-to-day ops but keeps the science brief: Alphabet chief scientist, DeepMind chair, and Isomorphic Labs CEO after a \$2.1B Series B. Here is the portfolio that remains.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is calling for a new kind of international AI watchdog, one that could evaluate the most powerful frontier models. The proposal comes at a time when AI systems are improving quickly in reasoning, coding.
Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute this week with essays on AGI governance and model transparency. Hassabis sketches a U.S. frontier-evaluation body; Shah and Dragan warn monitorability is not inevitable.
Series end: what Google confirmed under Kavukcuoglu’s SVP seat — and what is still analysis or unknown. Reporting map + Confirmed / Analysis / Unknown.
Series start (Aug 5, 2026): Kavukcuoglu named DeepMind SVP; Hassabis becomes chair and Alphabet chief scientist; Dean & Ghemawat exit to a PBC.
Amodei’s pace-the-frontier call won lab backing — then Trump and Nvidia said no slowdown onstage. Monday’s tape split the story: cyber names jumped while chip infrastructure sold off.
First-day brief (Aug 5, 2026): four Google AI researchers leave to launch Discovery Loop. Superseded for depth by Brocker’s later PBC analysis — use this for the initial departure framing only.
Related angle: OpenAI and Anthropic’s summer 2026 release tempo — the competitive pressure behind DeepMind’s shipping-speed remake.