In detail
- Adler and Pritzel were key figures in developing Google's Gemini model.
- Noam Shazeer has been at Google since 2000 (except for his time building Character.AI, which Google acquihired for $2.7 billion).
- John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold.
- The trend could accelerate as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for IPOs and can attract top talent with equity incentives.
Why it matters
For a German business, this signals that top AI talent is increasingly migrating to well-funded startups — a sign of shifting industry dynamics and potential delays in Google's AI roadmap.
For you Watch how Google's AI capacity evolves; Anthropic and OpenAI could innovate faster if they deploy this talent effectively.