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The clock speed of fundamental research and the clock speed of shipping AI products are structurally incompatible.
One optimizes for long-horizon discovery and peer-reviewed credibility; the other for user acquisition and deployment velocity.
Google has now explicitly chosen the second at DeepMind, sidelining scientific founder Demis Hassabis and consolidating authority around Sergey Brin as the Silicon Valley parent takes direct operational control of the London lab.
The shift in operating model DeepMind's identity was built around a research-first culture that kept it at a productive distance from Google's product teams. Hassabis shaped that identity over years.
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