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AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
Key takeaways
- Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to Bloomberg.
- Tech Crunch reached out to Google for comment.
- These departures are part of a concerning trend for Google.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel played key roles in the development of Google s Gemini model.
Tech Crunch reached out to Google for comment.
These departures are part of a concerning trend for Google. Last week, legendary AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced that he was leaving Google for Open AI. Shazeer had been at Google since 2000, save for the three years he spent building his controversial chatbot startup, Character.AI (which Google effectively acqui-hired for $2.7 billion, in part to bring Shazeer back to work on Gemini).
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