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Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic after key roles on the Gemini model. They follow Noam Shazeer’s move to OpenAI and John Jumper’s departure to Anthropic, and with both firms eyeing IPOs, rivals are using equity incentives to recruit top AI talent.
- Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, key architects of Gemini, left Google for Anthropic.
- Noam Shazeer went to OpenAI despite Google paying $2.7 billion to acqui-hire Character.AI partly to keep him.
- John Jumper, Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead, is also departing Google DeepMind for Anthropic.
- As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for IPOs, their equity offers are outcompeting Google's ability to retain top AI researchers.
Google has launched its powerful Gemini AI model, which has outperformed competitors, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, to become the leading AI chatbot. The company's extensive investment in research and hardware development has enabled it to protect its search business amidst the growing popularity of chatbots.
- Google's Gemini model has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top-ranked AI chatbot
- Years of heavy investment in in-house AI research and custom hardware (TPUs) let Google catch up after appearing to lag OpenAI
- That infrastructure edge is also helping Google defend its core search business against the threat posed by chatbots