he CEO of Google Sundar Pichai announced this Thursday that the executive of the Google search engine and advertising products, Prabhakar Raghavan
will soon leave his role. He also mentioned that the Google executive Nick Fox will take his place. Prabhakar Raghavan is expected to step into the role of chief technologist.
Sundar Pichai mentioned in his announcement that “After 12 years leading teams across Google, he’ll return to his computer science roots and take on the role of Chief Technologist, Google. In this role, he’ll partner closely with me and Google leads to provide technical direction and leadership and grow our culture of tech excellence.”
Until now, Prabhakar Raghavan has guided and managed the Google team in features such as the Smart Reply and the Smart Compose which represent the first AI-powered assistance in the email service. After this, the executive of the Google search engine and advertising products has also supervised many AI launches such as AI Overviews and Circle to Search engine along with other artificial intelligence features such as the Immersive view, and the virtual try-on in apps like Maps and Shopping.
According to Sundar Pichai's point of view, Nick Fox has “been instrumental in shaping Google’s AI product roadmap and collaborating closely with Prabhakar and his leadership team.”. This statement comes after Nick Fox has been a significant help for different launches of products, such as the Google FI and RCS messaging.
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Besides these changes in roles, the CEO of Google also declared that the Gemini app team which is managed by Sissie Hsiao will son join the Google DeepMind team which is supervised by Demis Hassabis.
From the executive’s point of view, the fusion between these two teams is believed to improve feedback loops, enable fast deployment of our new models in the Gemini app, make our post-training work proceed more efficiently, and build on our great product momentum.”
In addition to these, Sundar Pichai also stated that he plans for the Google Assistant team and the Google Platforms and Devices team to work together on the products that they are building.
Maybe this news is coming in a period when Google plans to establish itself as the leading company in the artificial intelligence industry. However, it should be mentioned that Google is facing now several antitrust lawsuits that need to be finished soon.
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