Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the second pair to head for the Claude maker inside a week.
Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both regarded internally as key contributors to Google’s flagship model, are the names this time.
Adler worked on the company’s AI coding effort, and Pritzel on pretraining, the early stage in which a model learns from large volumes of data.
Neither move had been formally announced at the time of reporting, and the people Bloomberg cited spoke on condition of anonymity. Google and Anthropic did not comment. What is clear is the direction of travel, which has been pointing one way for some time.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The two exits land on top of a fortnight that Google would rather forget. Last week Noam Shazeer, a vice-president of engineering and a co-author of the 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” that introduced the Transformer architecture underpinning the entire field, left for OpenAI.
