julia love

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Broke story on Google AI researcher departures to Anthropic; covers talent dynamics and compute politics at hyperscalers.

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Google loses key Gemini researchers to Anthropic; compute politics and talent drain raise execution risk

Senior researchers Jonas Adler (AI coding) and Alexander Pretzel (pretraining) left for Anthropic; compute resources shifted before Noam Shazeer's departure, suggesting internal political struggles over scarce compute that could slow Gemini development.

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MEDjulia love·Bloomberg Tech·2 months ago
Google loses key Gemini researchers to Anthropic; compute politics and talent drain raise execution risk
Senior researchers Jonas Adler (AI coding) and Alexander Pretzel (pretraining) left for Anthropic; compute resources shifted before Noam Shazeer's departure, suggesting internal political struggles over scarce compute that could slow Gemini development.
"COMPUTING POWER IS A PRECIOUS RESOURCE. AND SO LEARNED THAT SHORTLY BEFORE NOAM SHAZEER ANNOUNCED HIS DEPARTURE, THE COMPUTING POWER FOR ONE OF HIS PROJECTS WAS SHIFTED TO A LARGE…"
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