Hassabis Hands Off DeepMind and Names 2030 for AGI

Demis Hassabis has stepped back from running Google DeepMind day to day, moving to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with longtime research lead Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as SVP. Hassabis announced the change himself on X on August 5, linking Google's own company blog — that part is cleanly primary-sourced. The widely repeated 'AGI around 2030' timeline attached to the transition is a different confidence level: it appears throughout the reporting and commentary but we could not tie it to a direct quote. The handoff comes as Google says Gemini crossed a billion users, and roughly a month after Jeff Dean and three colleagues left Google to start a company together. We work through what's confirmed versus what isn't, why the direction of Hassabis's timeline  ...