The Nobel scientist behind AlphaFold leaves DeepMind for Anthropic (twitter.com)
Two senior names left Google DeepMind in two days: Noam Shazeer, then Jumper. The thread treated it less as one departure than as a pattern, and started guessing what is going wrong inside Google.
One read tied the move to Anthropic's recent purchase of a biotech outfit and a bet on using AI to discover drugs. A skeptic countered that the whole industry is now a revolving door priced around the next IPO.
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