Two men have become considerably more powerful inside Google.
The first is Demis Hassabis, who already heads up Google’s AI research and is now better positioned to compete with ChatGPT. The second is Nick Fox, a company veteran who now oversees the company’s cash cow: Search.
Before, Hassabis didn’t have control of the product team that put the models his researchers developed into the world. Now, he oversees the end-to-end experience of Gemini, from the research driving the models to the chatbot people use to access them.