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Jeff Dean is a senior computer scientist and software engineer at Google, currently serving as SVP of Research and Google DeepMind, overseeing Research and Health efforts. He joined Google in 1999 and became a central figure in building the company's large-scale computing infrastructure, co-designing systems such as MapReduce, BigTable, and Spanner. He later led Google Brain and became a key architect of Google's AI research strategy, helping drive work on deep learning and large-scale neural network systems including TensorFlow. In 2018 he became head of Google AI, and in 2023, following the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind, he was named Google's Chief Scientist. He is widely known in the tech industry for his technical contributions to distributed systems and for his leadership role in Google's AI and machine learning efforts.

Updated 5 August 2026

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AI Earthquake at Google: DeepMind CEO Out, Chief Scientist Launches his Own Startup Trending Topics · 2 hours ago · 49 Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup TechCrunch · 3 hours ago · 39 Demis Hassabis steps down from Google DeepMind CEO role amid a major AI leadership shakeup Fortune · 42 Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently” The New Stack · 4 hours ago · 9 Why I Left Google DeepMind The Pond · 2 weeks ago · 8

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Google restructures DeepMind leadership: Demis Hassabis steps down as CEO to chair Alphabet's AI strategy while Jeff Dean and three senior researchers depart to launch Discovery Loop startup Executive move

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