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Gemini researchers move to Anthropic

·2026.06.25 09:00

Key point

Key researchers who led the development of Google's Gemini models are successively moving to Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying the talent drain.

Details

Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in the development of Google's Gemini models, are moving to Anthropic. This is an extension of the serious core talent drain trend that Google has recently been experiencing.

Google has recently lost major researchers one after another.

  • Noam Shazeer: Announced departure from Google to join OpenAI
  • John Jumper: Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate and Google DeepMind Director, moving to Anthropic

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for initial public offerings (IPOs), their aggressive talent acquisition competition, wielding equity compensation as a weapon, is expected to intensify further.

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