AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
AI 研究人员持续从谷歌流向竞争对手
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel played key roles in the development of Google’s Gemini model. TechCrunch reached out to Google for comment. 据彭博社报道，顶尖 AI 研究人员 Jonas Adler 和 Alexander Pritzel 即将离开谷歌，转投 Anthropic。报道称，Adler 和 Pritzel 在谷歌 Gemini 模型的开发中发挥了关键作用。TechCrunch 已就此事联系谷歌寻求置评。
These departures are part of a concerning trend for Google. Last week, legendary AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced that he was leaving Google for OpenAI. Shazeer had been at Google since 2000, save for the three years he spent building his controversial chatbot startup, Character.AI (which Google effectively acqui-hired for $2.7 billion, in part to bring Shazeer back to work on Gemini). 这些人员流失是谷歌面临的一个令人担忧的趋势。上周，传奇 AI 研究员 Noam Shazeer 宣布离开谷歌加入 OpenAI。Shazeer 自 2000 年起就在谷歌工作，期间仅有三年时间离开去创办了备受争议的聊天机器人初创公司 Character.AI（谷歌后来以 27 亿美元将其“收购式招聘”，部分原因正是为了让 Shazeer 回归参与 Gemini 的研发）。
Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director John Jumper said he was leaving Google for Anthropic. Alongside DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, which can predict 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences. 在 Shazeer 宣布离职仅几天后，谷歌 DeepMind 总监 John Jumper 也表示将离开谷歌加入 Anthropic。Jumper 与 DeepMind 首席执行官 Demis Hassabis 因在 AlphaFold 上的工作共同获得了 2024 年诺贝尔化学奖，该模型能够根据氨基酸序列预测蛋白质的 3D 结构。
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, this trend could continue — it’s a great time for the companies to recruit top AI talent with a promise of equity. 随着 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 准备上市，这一趋势可能会持续下去——对于这些公司来说，现在正是以股权承诺招募顶尖 AI 人才的绝佳时机。