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Google DeepMind's rough stretch: four senior researchers gone in a week — three to Anthropic — as Gemini 3.5 Pro slips to July
In roughly six days, Google DeepMind lost four senior AI researchers — Nobel laureate John Jumper, Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, and Arthur Conmy — three of them to Anthropic, plus Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI a week earlier. At the same time, Gemini 3.5 Pro's long-promised June launch has reportedly slipped to July (per Business Insider and Reuters; Google hasn't officially confirmed). Together they raise real questions about Google's frontier-AI execution — but DeepMind is vast and Gemini is still the clear #2. Here's the honest read for anyone deciding whether to bet on Gemini.
Read story →Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic — a signal Anthropic is going after AI for science
John Jumper — AlphaFold lead and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry — announced he's leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. It's the second marquee DeepMind departure to a rival in a single week, after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Jumper's specialty is AI for biology and protein science, so the move reads as Anthropic staking a claim on AI-for-science — connecting to its Mythos biomedical ambitions. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and what it means for where Claude goes next.
Read story →Noam Shazeer — Transformer co-inventor and Gemini co-lead — leaves Google for OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, Google VP of Engineering and co-lead of the Gemini model family, announced June 18, 2026 that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer co-authored the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the Transformer — the architecture under GPT, Gemini, and Claude. Google had brought him back from Character.AI in August 2024 in a deal reportedly worth ~$2.7 billion. His exact OpenAI title was not officially disclosed. The departure lands as Gemini 3.5 Pro remains unshipped and reshapes the OpenAI–Google talent rivalry.
Read story →Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — leading a Claude-accelerated pre-training team
OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI lead Andrej Karpathy announced May 19, 2026 he's joining Anthropic. He started this week working on pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph, leading a new team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. The hire compounds Anthropic's enterprise positioning lead with a marquee talent signal at the moment OpenAI files for IPO.
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