Koray Kavukcuoglu's appointment as SVP demonstrates continuity and stability in Google DeepMind's technical leadership, with a proven track record of delivering breakthrough AI innovations
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
"Kavukcuoglu began building a reputation within other parts of Google as well, as someone more attuned to commercialization... He now will have final say on major decisions for DeepMind, a Google spokesperson told Reuters last week."
"Kavukcuoglu might fix the problem or Google's chronic inertia. Pichai has overseen some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in modern computing. Now he needs an organizational revolution that proves Google can turn them into products."
"Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands."