Google Elevates Koray Kavukcuoglu to Lead Gemini as Brin Pushes 22 Billion-Token AI Drive
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 15
Google Elevates Koray Kavukcuoglu to Lead Gemini as Brin Pushes 22 Billion-Token AI Drive
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 15
Summary
Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over Google’s AI organization as SVP, replacing DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and directly overseeing Gemini, its app and developer teams.
Sergey Brin is pressing Alphabet to sharpen its focus on Gemini as Google responds to stronger momentum from OpenAI and Anthropic in frontier models.
22 billion API tokens per minute and 950 million monthly active users show Gemini’s scale, but Google has yet to match rivals’ acclaim since launching Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Alphabet is centralizing AI leadership and committing heavy infrastructure spending to speed model development, even as investors weigh that cost against Google Cloud growth and a 70.44% one-year stock gain.
With legendary engineers leaving and leadership shuffling, can Google's internal Code Strike truly save Gemini from falling behind Anthropic and OpenAI?
Does sidelining Demis Hassabis to a research role signal Google is sacrificing the dream of AGI for short-term survival in the AI race?