Maintenance in progress

noam shazeer, google vp of engineering and co-lead of the gemini model series and co-author of the transformer architecture paper, announced departure to openai on june 19. john jumper, 2024 nobel prize winner for alphafold protein structure work, announced departure from google deepmind to anthropic the following day. losing both a foundational architecture figure and the most decorated scientist in its ai division within 24 hours is structurally unusual and marks an acceleration of talent redistribution from google to its two primary us competitors simultaneously.

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