Google recently appointed insider Koray Kavukcuoglu to lead its future AI-powered product development. Kavukcuoglu, former chief technology officer of Google’s DeepMind AI lab, is taking on the newly created title of chief AI architect. He will also become a new senior vice president, reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.
Kavukcuoglu will continue serving as Google DeepMind’s CTO, reporting to its CEO Demis Hassabis, Pichai said in the memo.
“In this expanded role, Koray will accelerate how we bring our world-leading models into our products, with the goal of more seamless integration, faster iteration, and greater efficiency”, Pichai said.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, faces market pressure to demonstrate financial returns on its AI-related capital expenditures, which are expected to hit $75 billion this year, while maintaining its bottom line against the threat of competing AI offerings, as well as antitrust enforcement.
Google said it would put artificial intelligence into the hands of more web surfers and teased a $249.99-a-month subscription for its AI power users at its annual I/O conference in May, along with a flurry of demos that included new smart glasses.
Pichai said in a recent memo that Alphabet was “entering a new phase of the AI platform shift.” He told reporters that the rise of generative AI was not at the full expense of online search.
Source: Reuters
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