{"id":107149,"date":"2025-04-02T19:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:40:46","slug":"google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins\/","title":{"rendered":"Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On the heels of releasing its <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/03\/google-says-the-new-gemini-2-5-pro-model-is-its-smartest-ai-yet\/\">most capable AI model yet<\/a>, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/02\/2025\/google-gemini-shakes-up-ai-leadership-sissie-hsiao-steps-down-replaced-by-josh-woodward\">new report<\/a> from Semafor reveals that longtime Googler Sissie Hsiao will step down from her role leading the Gemini team effective immediately. In her place, Google is appointing Josh Woodward, who currently leads Google Labs.<\/p>\n<p>According to a memo from DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, this change is designed to &#8220;sharpen our focus on the next evolution of the Gemini app.&#8221; This new responsibility won&#8217;t take Woodward away from his role at Google Labs\u2014he will remain in charge of that division while leading the Gemini team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hsiao says in a message to employees that she is happy with &#8220;Chapter 1&#8221; of the Bard story and is optimistic for Woodward&#8217;s &#8220;Chapter 2.&#8221; Hsiao won&#8217;t be involved in Google&#8217;s AI efforts for now\u2014she&#8217;s opted to take some time off before returning to Google in a new role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/04\/google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/04\/google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. A new report from Semafor reveals that longtime Googler Sissie Hsiao will step down from her role leading the Gemini team effective immediately. In her place, Google is appointing Josh Woodward, who currently leads Google Labs. According to a memo from DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, this change is designed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/google-shakes-up-gemini-leadership-google-labs-head-taking-the-reins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. 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