ainewsblitz.com

Breaking

Shazeer and Jumper Leave Google, Alphabet Stock Falls Up to 7.2%

  • Recruiting & HR
  • Funding & M&A
  • Foundation Models

Two senior Google DeepMind researchers departed within a single week, sending Alphabet shares down as much as 7.2% on June 22 and wiping out roughly $225 billion to $270 billion in market value. Noam Shazeer, Gemini co-lead and Vice President of Engineering, is moving to OpenAI, while John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold and a 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is joining Anthropic, with both moves surfacing between June 18 and 19, according to CNBC and Reuters.

Continue reading

The rest of this article is for AI News Blitz readers. Choose an option below to keep reading.

$20
Read this article
$29/month
Unlimited — all 3,714 articles, the full archive, and comprehension quizzes
Save 72%
$98/year
≈ $8.17/month
Unlimited, billed once a year