Four of Google’s most consequential AI researchers resigned in a single week. By the time markets closed on Friday, Alphabet had shed $270 billion in market value — the company’s largest single-day market-cap loss on record. The market wasn’t being dramatic. It was doing math. Between June 18 and June 24, Google DeepMind lost Noam Shazeer (Gemini co-lead, co-author of “Attention Is All You Need”), John Jumper (Nobel Prize winner, AlphaFold architect), Jonas Adler (Gemini coding AI lead), and Alexander Pritzel (pretraining). Shazeer is heading to OpenAI. The other three are going to Anthropic. An AI safety researcher, Arthur Conmy, […]
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