Five DeepMind Researchers Leave in a Week, Delaying Gemini Release
The departures began with a resignation letter, then another, then three more, and by the end of seven days Google had lost five senior researchers from its most prestigious AI…
General Intuition Raises $320 Million to Train AI Agents in Video Games
General Intuition said Thursday it has raised $320 million at a valuation of $2.3 billion, a vote of confidence in its unusual thesis: that video games, not real-world data, are…
Nobel Winner Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic; Alphabet Falls a Second Day
LONDON — John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023 for AlphaFold, the system that predicted the three-dimensional shape of proteins and reshaped biology. Now he is leaving…
Nobel Winner John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who led the creation of AlphaFold and cracked one of biology’s oldest problems, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, according to people familiar with…
DeepMind Founder Quietly Backed Anthropic, Google’s Biggest AI Rival
For years, the founding story of Anthropic has been told as a split within OpenAI: a group of researchers led by Dario Amodei left in 2020 to build a rival…
