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by tosh5 hours ago |
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upvoteby colesantiago5 hours ago|
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It is good for Demis and Google overall.

This is a promotion for Demis and this could be a path for Demis to be CEO of Alphabet in the future in the AI era.

Google already invested in Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean, Orol Vinyals, Quoc Le and Sanjay Ghemawat's company), so what is happening is still a win in investment terms.

The question is about Sundar's future at Google, he is a mobile era CEO at Alphabet and I would hazard a guess he will probably step down in less than 3 years.

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upvoteby junesix4 hours ago|
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I don't see Demis becoming CEO. He's a scientist and researcher. He wouldn't want to be bogged down by minutiae of corporate politics, org structure, government relations, mobile hardware, etc. Chair lets him have authority to explore any path of interest without overhead of operations.
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upvoteby aix14 hours ago|
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> this could be a path for Demis to be CEO in the future in the AI era

His current title is CEO of Google DeepMind. Becoming Chief Scientist of Alphabet seems to be a step away from the path to replacing Sundar, no?

P.S. I think his real interest is Isomorphic, and his new role will offer fewer distractions.

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upvoteby sashank_15094 hours ago|
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I agree sundar will step down but I’m not sure if this means they’re grooming Demis to takeover. I suspect not, and someone else might take over.
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upvoteby tonfa4 hours ago|
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Similar to how Sundar was promoted, isn't it more likely to be a promotion from existing leadership (one of the product leads/SVP).
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upvoteby lokar4 hours ago|
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My impression, inside and out of G, was that Sundar (and Ruth) were about scaling down R&D expenses (as a fraction of revenue), and focusing on exploiting the monopolies.

Perhaps now there could be a shift back to investing in R&D to get fresh monopolies.

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upvoteby stevemk14ebr3 hours ago|
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You're crazy of you think Demis is CEO of alphabet material. He's an accomplished AI researcher, Google does about 10000 other things than AI.
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upvoteby jdross3 hours ago|
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Demis is CEO of Alphabet material. He would be exceptional in that role, and Google would be wise to put him there
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upvoteby JacobAsmuth4 hours ago|
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> mobile era CEO

He was the guy branding Google an AI-first company back when they invented the transformer.

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upvoteby tosh4 hours ago|
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ty!
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