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Google Shifts AI Power to California in Race Against Anthropic, OpenAI

Bloomberg Technology Thursday 06 August 2026, 00:00 UTC By Julia Love, Shirin Ghaffary, Mark Bergen and Davey Alba 1 min read
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Big Tech Google Shifts AI Power to California in Race Against Anthropic, OpenAI Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California, headquarters to gain momentum in the accelerating race against Anthropic and OpenAI to build the world’s dominant AI models. The tech giant appointed Koray Kavukcuoglu, who moved to Mountain View in the past year, to run its sprawling AI research and operations, while Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s...

Big Tech Google Shifts AI Power to California in Race Against Anthropic, OpenAI Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California, headquarters to gain momentum in the accelerating race against Anthropic and OpenAI to build the world’s dominant AI models. The tech giant appointed Koray Kavukcuoglu, who moved to Mountain View in the past year, to run its sprawling AI research and operations, while Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s co-founder and long-time chief executive officer, has stepped back from day-to-day operations to become chairman of Google DeepMind and Alphabet’s Chief Scientist. Sebastian Borgeaud, the head of a key AI coding effort, also moved from the UK to California. Others have departed from the company's London headquarters altogether.
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