AI researchers continue to leave Google in favor of its competitors

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pretzl will leave Google to move to Anthropic, according to the British Daily Mail. Bloomberg. According to the report, Adler and Pretzl played key roles in developing Google’s Gemini model.

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These departures are part of a worrying trend for Google. Last week, legendary A.I. researcher Noam Shazier Announce It was Leave Google For OpenAI. Shazier has been working at Google since 2000, except for the three years he spent building his site controversial Chatbot startup, Character.AI (which Google actually acquired for $2.7 billion, in part to bring Shazeer back to work on Gemini).

Just days after Shazier, director of Google DeepMind, made the announcement John Jumper He said he was leaving Google for Anthropics. Along with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Jumper won the 2024 award Nobel Prize in Chemistry For his work on AlphaFold, which can predict 3D protein structures from animal DNA sequences.

Such as OpenAI and Anthropy Get ready to go publicThis trend could continue – it’s a great time for companies to hire the best AI talent with the promise of equality.