Google lost 3 Gemini leads to rivals, but Demis Hassabis says the bench is deep
anthropic and openai poached three key architects behind google's gemini, including a nobel laureate, spooking investors and signaling a valuation battle.
anthropic continues to raid google deepmind's top talent, onboarding jonas adler, alexander pritzel, and nobel prize winner john jumper shortly after openai hired gemini co-lead noam shazeer. data suggests this is a trend, with deepmind engineers moving to anthropic eleven times more often than the reverse. despite the departures and resulting investor anxiety, deepmind ceo demis hassabis maintains the lab maintains the industry's deepest bench.