{"slug": "two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic", "title": "Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic", "summary": "Two more Google Gemini researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report. The departures follow those of Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, marking a pattern of senior talent leaving Google for AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, driven by pre-IPO equity and compute access issues.", "body_md": "*Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the second pair to head for the Claude maker inside a week. *\n\nJonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both regarded internally as key contributors to Google’s flagship model, are the names this time.\n\nAdler worked on the company’s AI coding effort, and Pritzel on pretraining, the early stage in which a model learns from large volumes of data.\n\nNeither move had been formally announced at the time of reporting, and the people Bloomberg cited spoke on condition of anonymity. Google and Anthropic did not comment. What is clear is the direction of travel, which has been pointing one way for some time.\n\nThe two exits land on top of a fortnight that Google would rather forget. Last week Noam Shazeer, a vice-president of engineering and a co-author of the 2017 paper *“Attention Is All You Need”* that introduced the Transformer architecture underpinning the entire field, left for OpenAI.\n\nDays later, [John Jumper](https://thenextweb.com/news/john-jumper-nobel-deepmind-leaves-anthropic-alphafold), who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, announced he was leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years, also for Anthropic.\n\nJumper’s exit alone wiped roughly 6% off Alphabet’s share price, more than $245bn in market value, in a single session.\n\nFour senior departures in a matter of days is the kind of run that turns individual decisions into a pattern, and the pattern has a clear beneficiary.\n\nAnthropic has been recruiting aggressively from Google DeepMind as it pushes beyond general-purpose models into coding, healthcare, and scientific applications, the territory where researchers like Jumper and Pritzel are most valuable.\n\nThe losses sharpen a wider sense that [Google’s grip is loosening](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-dominance-cracking-ai-era) in the part of the industry it once expected to own outright.\n\nThe reason the talent keeps moving is not only money, though money is part of it. Anthropic and OpenAI are both on the cusp of going public, which gives them something a company already worth two trillion dollars cannot easily match: the chance to join before an initial public offering and own a slice of the upside.\n\nFor a researcher weighing offers, a pre-IPO equity package at a fast-growing private lab can be worth more than a comfortable salary at a giant whose stock is already priced for success.\n\nCompute is the other half of the calculation. Inside Google, access to the company’s own chips has become something researchers [have had to queue for](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-tpu-compute-internal-researchers-anthropic), as external demand for its tensor processing units soaks up capacity that might once have gone to internal work.\n\nA researcher who cannot get the hardware to run experiments is a researcher with a reason to listen when a rival calls. Anthropic, notably, is one of the outside customers buying that TPU capacity.\n\nFor Google, the immediate damage is reputational as much as operational. Gemini remains a competitive model, and two departures do not unmake it.\n\nBut a frontier lab runs on a relatively small number of people who can do the hardest work, and losing four of them in a week, to the two rivals best placed to use them, is the sort of thing that gets noticed by the next researcher deciding whether to stay.\n\nWhat happens next is a recruitment question more than a product one. Google has the resources to backfill and the history to attract talent, and it has weathered defections before.\n\nIf it can slow a departure rate that has lately looked less like a series of individual choices and more like a verdict is the question the coming months will answer.\n\n## Get the TNW newsletter\n\nGet the most important tech news in your inbox each week.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic", "canonical_source": "https://thenextweb.com/news/google-loses-two-gemini-researchers-anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-25 09:41:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 10:19:13.379568+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-startups", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Anthropic", "Jonas Adler", "Alexander Pritzel", "Noam Shazeer", "John Jumper", "OpenAI", "Alphabet"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic.jsonld"}}