Google’s Frontier AI Ambitions Gutted As DeepMind’s CEO Steps Down, Its Chief AI Scientist Leaves, And Its Coding Hopes Now Rest On A $1.5 Billion Deal With A Startup

With Google's frontier AI models again reported to have fallen behind their competitors, as evidenced by the recurring launch delays for Gemini 3.5 Pro, which has supposedly fallen short of Google's internal goals, there were increasing rumblings of a widespread upheaval over at Google. Now, just a