Gemini Chatbot Engineering VP Departs Google Amid AI Reorg

While usage of Google’s Gemini chatbot has grown dramatically over the past six months, it still trails ChatGPT.

The head of engineering for Google’s Gemini chatbot, Amar Subramanya, is leaving the company, employees were told in a reorganization announced last week. Separately, Mat Velloso, the head of product for Google DeepMind’s AI developer platform, has also left Google, a Google spokesperson confirmed.

Some teams that previously reported to Subramanya, including model training, data and evaluation infrastructure, compliance, and core infrastructure for the Gemini app, are now moving into the core generative AI group within Google DeepMind, the spokesperson said. Google is reorganizing the structure of its Gemini app team as it attempts to move faster, according to the spokesperson.

While usage of Google’s Gemini chatbot has grown dramatically over the past six months to 35 million daily active users and 350 million monthly active users as of March, it was still trailing ChatGPT, according to internal Google documents revealed in court. In April, Google replaced the team’s head, Sissie Hsiao, with Josh Woodward, the Google executive responsible for AI products like the NotebookLM research tool. Subramanya previously worked closely with Hsiao.