Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic bloomberg. According to the report, Adler and Pretzel played a key role in the development of Google’s Gemini model.
TechCrunch contacted Google for comment.
These departures are part of a worrying trend for Google. Last week, famous AI researchers noam shazir announced that he was leaving google For OpenAI. Shazier had been at Google since 2000, except for three years spent building its controversial Chatbot startup, Character.AI (which Google effectively acquired for $2.7 billion, partly to get Shazier back to work on Gemini).
Just days after Shazir made his announcement, Google DeepMind director john jumper He said that he is leaving Google for Anthropic. With DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Jumper wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry For his work on AlphaFold, which can predict 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences.
As OpenAI and Anthropic get ready to go publicThis trend may continue – it is a good time for companies to recruit top AI talent with the promise of equity.
