Google has introduced a serious management reshuffle. In a memo to staff, additionally posted on-line, Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced that the corporate’s long-time search head Prabhakar Raghavan will transition to the function of Chief Technologist. Apart from search, the senior vp Raghavan is in command of advertisements and another necessary segments.
Raghavan, who has been instrumental in Google’s development over the previous decade, will now concentrate on fostering a tradition of technological excellence and offering strategic technical course.He’ll work carefully with Pichai and different Google executives to make sure the corporate stays on the forefront of innovation.
“Prabhakar has determined it’s time to make a giant leap in his personal profession,” Pichai wrote. “After 12 years main groups throughout Google, he’ll return to his pc science roots and tackle the function of Chief Technologist, Google. On this function, he’ll companion carefully with me and Google results in present technical course and management and develop our tradition of tech excellence.”
To fill Raghavan’s sneakers, Google has appointed Nick Fox, a seasoned chief throughout the firm’s search and advertisements division. Fox, who has performed a pivotal function within the improvement of merchandise like Google Fi and RCS messaging, will now oversee Google’s Search, advertisements, geo, and commerce operations.
Along with these government modifications, Google can be reorganizing a few of its analysis and improvement groups. The Gemini app staff, led by Sissie Hsaio, will now be built-in into Google DeepMind, the corporate’s AI analysis subsidiary. In the meantime, the Google Assistant staff will turn out to be a part of Google’s platforms and units division.
Here is the memo Google CEO Sundar Pichai despatched to Google staff:
Hello Googlers,
It has been an thrilling few days for AI throughout our merchandise. We noticed NotebookLM with Audio Overviews go viral, added extra methods to search out data in Search and Lens, and launched a revamped Google Searching for the AI period. We additionally simply shared a giant milestone in our work to assist docs use AI to detect diabetic retinopathy: 600,000 screenings and counting, and we’re increasing entry to extra individuals throughout India and Thailand. There’s much more to come back.
AI strikes sooner than any expertise earlier than it. To maintain growing the tempo of progress, we have been making shifts to simplify our buildings alongside the best way, together with the creation of Google DeepMind and the becoming a member of of the Platforms & Gadgets groups. As a subsequent step, Prabhakar and I’ve been pondering by means of find out how to construction our Data & Info staff for the Gemini period, and as we speak we shared the next modifications:
The Gemini app staff led by Sissie will be a part of Google DeepMind underneath Demis. Because the identify suggests, the Gemini app is the direct shopper interface to the most recent and best Gemini fashions. Bringing the groups nearer collectively will enhance suggestions loops, allow quick deployment of our new fashions within the Gemini app, make our post-training work proceed extra effectively and construct on our nice product momentum.
The Assistant groups targeted on units and residential experiences will transfer to Platforms & Gadgets to allow them to sit nearer to the product surfaces they’re constructing for and produce our AI-powered house initiatives into one staff and concentrate on enhancing consumer expertise.
In parallel to this, Prabhakar has determined it’s time to make a giant leap in his personal profession. After 12 years main groups throughout Google, he’ll return to his pc science roots and tackle the function of Chief Technologist, Google. On this function, he’ll companion carefully with me and Google results in present technical course and management and develop our tradition of tech excellence. Nick Fox, a longtime Googler and member of Prabhakar’s management staff, might be stepping as much as lead Okay&I, which incorporates our Search, Adverts, Geo, and Commerce merchandise.
Prabhakar’s management journey at Google has been exceptional, spanning Analysis, Workspace, Adverts, and Okay&I. He led the Gmail staff in launching Good Reply and Good Compose as early examples of utilizing AI to enhance merchandise, and took Gmail and Drive previous 1 billion customers. Throughout Okay&I, Prabhakar and staff have achieved important development and innovation: from launching AI Overviews, a groundbreaking development in Search that advantages tons of of thousands and thousands of customers worldwide to introducing new search modalities like Circle to Search, video understanding, and “store what you see” in Lens — all whereas enhancing core Search performance. Maps and Purchasing have remodeled with AI-driven options like immersive view and digital try-on. And in Adverts, we’ve made actual progress with AI-powered advert codecs and streamlined marketing campaign administration, whereas persevering with to innovate with Efficiency Max to empower thousands and thousands of companies.
I’m so grateful to Prabhakar for the sturdy basis and management bench he’s constructed throughout Okay&I. That features his unbelievable senior leaders and Nick who is able to hit the bottom operating in his new function as SVP of Okay&I!
Over the previous few years, Nick has been instrumental in shaping Google’s AI product roadmap and collaborating carefully with Prabhakar and his management staff on Okay&I’s technique. And all through his profession, Nick has demonstrated management throughout practically each side of Okay&I, from Product and Design in Search and Assistant, to our Purchasing, Journey, and Funds merchandise. He was additionally a pioneering chief in Adverts, the place he helped set up a rigorous high quality and user-focused method that is still key to our success. Nick has launched modern shopper merchandise like Google Fi and spearheaded advanced initiatives comparable to RCS messaging. I continuously flip to Nick to sort out our most difficult product questions and he constantly delivers progress with tenacity, velocity, and optimism.
Congratulations to Nick, and a heartfelt thanks to Prabhakar for his management by means of quite a few expertise shifts and for constructing a powerful basis for the longer term.
– Sundar
