In the span of 3 days: Noam Shazeer (Transformer co-author) leaves Google for OpenAI, and John Jumper (Nobel laureate, AlphaFold lead) leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
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In three days, Noam Shazeer (co-author of the Transformer paper) left Google for OpenAI, and Nobel laureate John Jumper (AlphaFold lead) left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, marking significant talent shifts in AI.
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