Google keeps losing top AI researchers to rivals

Insight summary

• •Key AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google to join Anthropic.
• •Both Adler and Pritzel contributed significantly to Google's Gemini AI model development.
• •Nobel laureate John Jumper also moved to Anthropic, and Gemini lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI.
• •These departures have negatively impacted Alphabet’s stock price.
• •Anthropic and OpenAI are nearing IPOs and offering attractive equity packages to employees.
• •DeepMind engineers are switching to Anthropic at a rate eleven times higher than vice versa.
• •Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims Google still has the strongest AI research team.