Sources inform “Globes” that Prof. Yossi Matias, who for the previous eighteen years has headed Google’s analysis and growth heart in Israel, is anticipated to maneuver to Silicon Valley to run Google Analysis, the corporate’s international analysis exercise.
Matias, a senior researcher in AI at Tel Aviv College, joined Google in 2006 as head of the Tel Aviv growth heart, similtaneously the exercise of Google’s Haifa growth heart was managed by Dr. Yoelle Maarek, who was accountable for the event of Google Recommend. In 2008, Maarek left to handle Yahoo’s growth heart and the next yr the Haifa and Tel Aviv growth facilities merged with Matias accountable for all of Google’s growth in Israel.
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Since 2014, Matias has been Vice President, Engineering & Analysis at Google. He’ll now transfer to firm headquarters in Mountain View, California, the place analysis takes place on machine studying, quantum computing, and utilized science. This exercise is at present headed by Google’s Senior Vice President of Expertise and Society James Manyika, to whom Matias will report.
In an electronic mail to workers on restructuring of Google’s analysis exercise at this time, CEO Sundar Pichai writes: “Final yr we created Google DeepMind, bringing collectively the Google Mind staff, DeepMind, and different researchers particularly centered on creating more and more succesful and normal AI techniques.
“The progress in only one yr has been unimaginable: Gemini fashions are seen as leaders and hold getting higher. And our successive breakthroughs have put us on a path to ship the world’s most superior, secure, and accountable AI.
“Now, to speed up this progress, we’re going to consolidate the groups that target constructing fashions throughout Analysis and Google DeepMind. All of this work will now sit in Google DeepMind and scale our capability to ship succesful AI for our customers, companions and prospects. It will simplify growth by concentrating compute-intensive mannequin constructing in a single place and establishing single entry factors for PAs trying to take these fashions and construct generative AI functions.
“This alteration additionally provides Google Analysis a transparent and distinct mandate to proceed investing in foundational and utilized pc science analysis in three key areas that tie on to Google’s mission: computing techniques (together with quantum), foundational ML and algorithms, and utilized science and society.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on April 18, 2024.
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