Google Rehires AI Founder Barret Zoph as Cloud Reaches 21% of Sales
Alphabet brought Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph back to Google DeepMind, after six years at Google Brain. Zoph publicly confirmed the return as the company’s stock traded at $336.595 Thursday. The hire is framed as strong for model research, but value depends on DeepMind turning it into better models, products, and paid cloud workloads.