Deepmind's talent drain likely comes down to chip shortages, a conflict of interest, and Google's bureaucracy

Deepmind's talent drain likely comes down to chip shortages, a conflict of interest, and Google's bureaucracy

DeepMind talent drain stems from TPU shortage and conflict of interest: Hassabis retreats from CEO, researchers frustrated as Google Cloud sells chips to rival Anthropic. The resource allocation paradox weakens Google's foundation model advantage—scarce GPU/TPU capacity serves cloud customers (competitors) instead of internal research teams.