Two more Google AI researchers leave for Anthropic as talent exodus continues
Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, key contributors to Google's Gemini model, join previously reported departures of Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.
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- Two senior Google AI researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are joining Anthropic.
- Adler and Pritzel helped develop Google's Gemini model.
- Their departures follow recent moves by Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic.
- The shifts come as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public.
Two senior AI researchers at Google, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving to join Anthropic, according to a report cited by TechCrunch. Adler and Pritzel are described as having played key roles in the development of Google's Gemini model.
Their departures follow the recent announcement by Noam Shazeer, a long-tenured Google researcher since 2000, that he was leaving for OpenAI. Shazeer had previously spent three years building Character.AI, which Google later acquired in a deal reported to be worth $2.7 billion, in part to bring him back to work on Gemini.
Days after Shazeer's announcement, John Jumper, director of Google DeepMind and a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work on AlphaFold, said he was leaving Google for Anthropic.
The departures occur as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, a timing that industry observers suggest may make it easier for these companies to recruit top AI talent with equity incentives.
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