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news Cloud Ai Drama 2026-06-20

Nobel Laureate, Transformer Co-Author Depart Google for AI Rivals

John Jumper, Nobel laureate and lead of AlphaFold, has joined Anthropic, while Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and co-leader of Gemini, moved to OpenAI. These high-profile departures signal a significant talent shift from Google's AI division to competitors.

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