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Google introduced a management change to its Information & Data (Ok&I) crew and a few structural adjustments to its Gemini crew.

At Ok&I, which incorporates the corporate’s Search, Adverts, Geo and Commerce merchandise, Nick Fox will succeed Prabhakar Raghavan as head of the crew, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, stated in a Thursday (Oct. 17) announcement.

Raghavan will transfer to the position of chief technologist at Google the place he’ll associate with Pichai and Google results in “present technical route and management and develop our tradition of tech excellence,” Pichai stated within the announcement.

Whereas Raghavan was main Ok&I, the group launched AI Overviews in Search; added new search modalities like Circle to Search, video understanding and “store what you see” in Lens; added synthetic intelligence-driven options like immersive view and digital try-on to Maps and Buying; and made progress on AI-powered advert codecs and streamlined marketing campaign administration, in keeping with the announcement.

“I’m so grateful to Prabhakar for the robust basis and management bench he’s constructed throughout Ok&I,” Pichai stated within the announcement. “That features his unimaginable senior leaders and Nick who is able to hit the bottom operating in his new position as SVP of Ok&I!”

Fox, a member of Raghavan’s management crew at Ok&I who will now lead that crew, has demonstrated management throughout the completely different aspects of Ok&I, was a pioneering chief in Adverts, and launched merchandise like Google Fi, in keeping with the announcement.

“I ceaselessly flip to Nick to sort out our most difficult product questions, and he constantly delivers progress with tenacity, velocity and optimism,” Pichai stated within the announcement.

The announcement additionally stated that the Gemini app crew led by Sissie Hsaio will be part of Google DeepMind underneath Demis Hassabis, enabling the app crew and the Gemini fashions crew to work collectively extra intently.

It additionally stated that the Assistant groups centered on units and residential experiences will transfer to Platforms & Gadgets in order that they’re nearer to the merchandise for which they’re constructing the assistants.

Google DeepMind stated Oct. 9 that it developed an AI model to foretell key properties of potential medication, aiming to speed up pharmaceutical analysis.

On Tuesday (Oct. 15), Google stated that it revamped its shopping platform with an expertise powered by AI that may roll out throughout america within the coming weeks.

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