Google’s AI center of gravity has moved from the UK to California, a loss for the UK and Europe. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who takes over all AI model development, is based in Mountain View, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai, with much of the team consolidating there. Demis Hassabis stays in London as chairman and Alphabet’s chief scientist, with Isomorphic Labs, AlphaFold and the science. The reporting says the split between Google Brain in Mountain View and DeepMind in London complicated decisions and frustrated talent on both continents. Semafor adds that Hassabis had been shifting away from the CEO duties for about a year. The three frontier labs in the West now all run their model development out of California. Additionally, frontier models, in their most locked-down tests, find new ways to ‘talk’ to each other and share resources, and AI pricing in China turns up instead of down, led by DeepSeek.