Date:
October 18, 2024
Google is going through a major leadership restructuring activity, in which, the entire team of Gemini app is being shifted to AI research lab Deep Mind.
Google is turning every stone to bring back its success-oriented aura after a series of controversies significantly damaged its market reputation. The company’s revenues have not been hit by the ongoing antitrust case or the latest revelations around its sketchy online search market dominance. However, the reputation of the legacy name ‘Google’ has dropped dramatically.
To boost its reputation from the core of hierarchies, Google announced leadership changes in its Knowledge & Information unit teams and structural changes to its Gemini teams. Prabhakar Raghavan has been appointed as the Chief Technological Officer to lead the new innovations across Search, AI, and other technologies.
Nick Fox will succeed in the responsibilities left behind by Prabhakar as Head of the Team at the K&I unit. Sundar Pichai made the key announcements related to majority leadership changes, the vision behind them, and the direction the company aims to move. According to CEO Pichai’s announcement on October 17th, this restructuring will help provide technical direction and leadership and grow its culture of tech excellence.
Raghavan’s contribution during his role as the Head of the K&I team has helped the group launch and successfully position AI Overview in search. He also helped add new search modalities, like Circle to Search, Video Understanding, and ‘Shop What You See’ in Google Lens.
“I’m so grateful to Prabhakar for the strong foundation and leadership bench he’s built across K&I. That includes his incredible senior leaders and Nick, who is ready to hit the ground running in his new role as SVP of K&I!” Pichai said in the announcement. Nick Fox has been a pioneering leader in ads, launched products like Google Fi, and has led multiple facets of K&I.
Google is also moving its entire Gemini team to the research lab Deep Mind. “The shift will improve feedback loops and enable fast deployment of our new models in the Gemini app," said Pichai in a blog post. This move, according to Pichai, will help position the company better in the generative AI space and bring forth faster development timelines for consumer-facing products built on the foundations of Gemini models.
