Prominent AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel have reportedly departed Google to join Anthropic, as detailed by Bloomberg. The report indicates that both Adler and Pritzel were instrumental in the development of Google's Gemini model.
TechCrunch has sought official comment from Google regarding these developments.
These recent exits contribute to an emerging and potentially troubling pattern for Google. Just last week, the esteemed AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced his move from Google to OpenAI. Shazeer's extensive tenure at Google began in 2000, interrupted only by a three-year period dedicated to founding his notable chatbot startup, Character.AI – a venture Google later effectively acquired for $2.7 billion, partly to reintegrate Shazeer into the Gemini project.
Mere days following Shazeer's announcement, John Jumper, a Director at Google DeepMind, also confirmed his departure from Google to join Anthropic. Notably, Jumper, alongside DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking contributions to AlphaFold, a revolutionary system capable of predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences.
With both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly preparing for public offerings, this trend of top-tier talent migration could persist. The prospect of equity makes this an especially attractive period for these companies to recruit leading AI professionals.
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