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Google loses top AI researchers to OpenAI and Anthropic amid new data-saving feature

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Google is facing a talent drain as two prominent AI researchers, Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, depart the company for OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively. Shazeer was a co-lead on Google's Gemini project, while Jumper was instrumental in the development of AlphaFold. This exodus follows a recent announcement by Google regarding a new Search setting that saves uploaded images and audio to train AI models, a feature users can disable. AI

IMPACT Loss of key AI talent from Google to rivals could impact future AI development and competition.

RANK_REASON Significant talent departure from a major AI lab to competitors.

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Google loses top AI researchers to OpenAI and Anthropic amid new data-saving feature

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    9to5 Google: New Google Search setting saves images and audio you upload; how to turn it off. “Google says it’s saving files and media uploaded during searches

    9to5 Google: New Google Search setting saves images and audio you upload; how to turn it off. “Google says it’s saving files and media uploaded during searches in user search history to train AI and improve the experience after announcing the change last month. Search history wil…

  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Search Engine Journal: Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic. “Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold’s

    Search Engine Journal: Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic. “Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold’s John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week.” https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/search-engin…

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