Sources inform “Globes” that Prof. Yossi Matias, who for the previous eighteen years has headed Google’s analysis and improvement middle in Israel, is anticipated to maneuver to Silicon Valley to run Google Analysis, the corporate’s world analysis exercise.
Matias is on the pc science college at Tel Aviv College, and was beforehand a analysis scientist at Bell Labs and a visiting professor at Stanford. He joined Google in 2006 to arrange its R&D facility in Israel. As much as then, the corporate’s exercise in Israel had primarily been administration of gross sales in Jap Europe and the Mediterranean.
The Israel improvement middle was arrange in August that yr in Tel Aviv, and after three years a department was arrange in Haifa. Altogether, Google employs about 2,000 folks in R&D in Israel, coping with cloud computing, synthetic intelligence and machine studying, and chips.
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 the moment headed by Google’s Senior Vice President of Know-how and Society James Manyika, to whom Matias will report.
In an electronic mail to workers on restructuring of Google’s analysis exercise right now, CEO Sundar Pichai writes: “Final yr we created Google DeepMind, bringing collectively the Google Mind workforce, DeepMind, and different researchers particularly centered on creating more and more succesful and normal AI techniques.
“The progress in only one yr has been unbelievable: 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 clients. It will simplify improvement by concentrating compute-intensive mannequin constructing in a single place and establishing single entry factors for PAs seeking to take these fashions and construct generative AI purposes.
“This variation additionally offers 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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