{"slug": "anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google", "title": "Anthropic recruits two more key Gemini researchers from Google", "summary": "Two Google AI researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving to join Anthropic, following Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer. The departures, which wiped $270 billion from Alphabet's market cap, highlight growing competition for AI talent as Anthropic and OpenAI approach potential IPOs.", "body_md": "# Google set to lose two AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI amid growing talent exodus\n\nNobel laureate John Jumper heads to Anthropic while Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI, wiping $270B from Alphabet's market cap\n\nTwo leading Google artificial intelligence researchers are planning to leave the company for Anthropic, adding to a growing talent drain from the team behind Gemini.\n\nJonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are expected to join the Claude maker, according to people familiar with the plans.\n\nBoth researchers were viewed internally as important contributors to Google’s artificial intelligence development.\n\nAdler worked on Google’s AI coding efforts, while Pritzel was involved in pretraining, the early stage in which models learn from large volumes of data.\n\nThe pair also contributed to Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold research alongside Nobel Prize winner John Jumper.\n\nTheir reported departures come shortly after Jumper announced that he was leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic.\n\nNoam Shazeer, a prominent researcher who helped lead Gemini development, also recently left Google to join OpenAI.\n\nThe four exits create another challenge for Google as it competes with Anthropic and OpenAI to develop more capable models and attract enterprise customers.\n\nGoogle spent much of the current AI boom trying to catch up with its startup rivals before regaining momentum through stronger Gemini models and its custom AI chips.\n\nThe recent departures have renewed concerns about whether the company can retain the researchers responsible for its most important advances.\n\nCompetition for experienced AI researchers has intensified as Anthropic and OpenAI move closer to potential public listings.\n\nJoining the companies before an initial public offering could give researchers access to significant equity gains that are harder to match at established technology companies.\n\nAnthropic recently raised $65 billion at a valuation of $965 billion, overtaking OpenAI and becoming the world’s most valuable private AI company.\n\nThe startup has aggressively recruited researchers from Google DeepMind as it expands beyond general purpose models into coding, healthcare and scientific applications.\n\nThe departures also come amid internal pressure over access to computing resources.\n\nShortly before Shazeer announced his move to OpenAI, Google reportedly reassigned computing capacity from one of his projects to another DeepMind team in London.\n\nThe change was intended to improve collaboration and consolidate the company’s pretraining work, but resource allocation has become a source of tension as teams compete for limited advanced chips.\n\nGoogle said it remains confident in its ability to attract and retain AI talent.\n\nDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said movement between leading laboratories was expected in the current market and argued that Google still had the largest and broadest research team in the industry.\n\n**Disclosure:** This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our\n\n[Editorial Policy](https://cryptobriefing.com/editorial-policy/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google", "canonical_source": "https://cryptobriefing.com/google-ai-researchers-anthropic-talent-exodus/", "published_at": "2026-06-24 18:37:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 18:50:09.717829+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-startups", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Google", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Jonas Adler", "Alexander Pritzel", "John Jumper", "Noam Shazeer", "Alphabet"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-recruits-two-more-key-gemini-researchers-from-google.jsonld"}}