Koray Kavukcuoglu
SVP, Google DeepMind, Google
Took operational leadership of Google DeepMind in August 2026 after serving as its CTO and as Google's Chief AI Architect.
Reports
Timeline
- Aug 5, 2026promotedNamed SVP of Google DeepMind, reporting to Sundar Pichai source ↗
In their words
“Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach,”
“Our intention is to, like - as soon as possible - to release an early post-training output because we see the results and we are excited,”
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Articles and posts
Koray Kavukcuoglu on frontier models, coding agents, and building AGI
HostsLogan KilpatrickGuestsKoray Kavukcuoglu (SVP and Chief AI Architect, Google DeepMind)
Gemini co-leads on project origins and what's next
HostsLogan KilpatrickGuestsJeff Dean (co-lead, Gemini), Koray Kavukcuoglu (co-lead, Gemini), Noam Shazeer (co-lead, Gemini), Oriol Vinyals (co-lead, Gemini)
Koray Kavukcuoglu: “This Is How We Are Going to Build AGI”
HostsLogan KilpatrickGuestsKoray Kavukcuoglu (CTO of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect of Google, Google)
Towards the future
HostsHannah FryGuestsKoray Kavukcuoglu (Director of Research, DeepMind), Trevor Back (Product Manager for DeepMind’s science research, DeepMind), Raia Hadsell (research scientist, DeepMind), Murray Shanahan (research scientist, DeepMind)
Life is like a game
HostsHannah FryGuestsOriol Vinyals (Research Scientist, DeepMind), Max Jaderberg (Research Scientist, DeepMind), Raia Hadsell (Lead Researcher, DeepMind), David Silver (Lead Researcher, DeepMind)
AI and Neuroscience: The virtuous circle
HostsHannah FryGuestsDemis Hassabis (CEO and co-founder, DeepMind), Matt Botvinick (Director of Neuroscience Research, DeepMind), Jess Hamrick (research scientist, DeepMind), Greg Wayne (research scientist, DeepMind)
Papers and research
Questions people ask
- Who is Koray Kavukcuoglu?
- SVP, Google DeepMind at Google (since aug 2026). Took operational leadership of Google DeepMind in August 2026 after serving as its CTO and as Google's Chief AI Architect.
- Who does Koray Kavukcuoglu report to?
- Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet and Google.