Google's TPO crunch: researchers bolt while DeepMind sells to Anthropic
talent is fleeing google deepmind due to restricted tpu access and bureaucracy while google supplies those same chips to rival anthropic, signaling internal resource friction.
a reported exodus of talent from deepmind is driven by internal frustration over limited access to google's tpu chips, while google cloud sells that compute to direct rivals like anthropic. researchers face opaque capacity allocations and bureaucracy, making agile startups more attractive, and ceo demis hassabis has reportedly retreated from daily operations. google simultaneously announced a $100 million infrastructure deal with external lab mirendil. this conflict suggests google's internal structure is failing to prioritize its own researchers, potentially ceding talent and ground to competitors.