{"slug": "googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic", "title": "Google’s new AI boss inherits a race to catch OpenAI and Anthropic", "summary": "Koray Kavukcuoglu has been appointed CEO of Google DeepMind, inheriting the challenge of keeping Google's Gemini AI models competitive with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The leadership change comes as Google intensifies its efforts to close the gap in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.", "body_md": "# Google’s new AI boss inherits a race to catch OpenAI and Anthropic\n\nSource:\n\n[CNBC Technology](https://www.cnbc.com/technology/)Koray Kavukcuoglu is taking charge of Google\n\n[DeepMind](/glossary/deepmind)as it tries to keep[Gemini](/glossary/gemini)competitive with[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)and[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic).Get AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\nAnthropic\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\nDeepMind\n\nA leading AI research lab, now part of Google.\n\nGemini\n\nGoogle's flagship multimodal AI model family, developed by Google DeepMind.\n\nOpenAI\n\nThe AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anth-yzr1", "published_at": "2026-08-12 05:00:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 05:40:44.747246+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Koray Kavukcuoglu", "Google DeepMind", "Gemini", "OpenAI", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-boss-inherits-a-race-to-catch-openai-and-anthropic.jsonld"}}