High AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, in accordance with Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel performed key roles within the growth 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 acquihired 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 might predict 3D protein constructions from animo acid sequences.
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, this pattern might proceed — it’s a good time for the businesses to recruit high AI expertise with a promise of fairness.
