August 7 news: Google is consolidating its artificial intelligence leadership team at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, in a bid to gain an edge in the increasingly fierce competition with Anthropic and OpenAI and build the world's most powerful AI model. Google's move to centralize its AI leadership aims to reverse the situation that has plagued the company since 2023. At that time, Google merged its two previously independently operated flagship labs: Google Brain, based at the company's Mountain View headquarters, and DeepMind, rooted in London. Although the two labs were unified under Google DeepMind, the research teams still worked on different continents. According to people familiar with the matter, this increased the difficulty of decision-making and frustrated talent in both locations. (Wall Street Journal)