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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.