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Google DeepMind: Leadership Change
Cao Liangliang, a director at Google DeepMind who worked on Gemini, has departed after 20 years in the US to join Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Source: Business Insider
The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader artificial intelligence bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 107.8 (Hot) (up 2.4 month-on-month), Asia is at steady (+1.2pts) on signal share.
Google DeepMind: 5 signals in the last 90 days — above the Artificial Intelligence median of 1 across 88 tracked companies; 0.3% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 6 tracked across 93 days.
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