Prime AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, in response to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel performed key roles within the improvement of Google’s Gemini mannequin.
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These departures are a part of a regarding pattern for Google. Final week, legendary AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced that he was leaving Google for OpenAI. Shazeer had been at Google since 2000, save for the three years he spent constructing his controversial chatbot startup, Character.AI (which Google successfully acqui-hired for $2.7 billion, partly to deliver Shazeer again to work on Gemini).
Simply days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director John Jumper mentioned he was leaving Google for Anthropic. Alongside DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Jumper gained the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, which may predict 3D protein buildings from animo acid sequences.
As OpenAI and Anthropic put together to go public, this pattern may proceed — it’s a good time for the businesses to recruit high AI expertise with a promise of fairness.
