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Google Loses Transformer Co-Author and AlphaFold Lead in Same Week
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper, left Google for OpenAI on June 18. John Jumper, Nobel-winning AlphaFold lead, departed for Anthropic days later. The exits underscore intensifying AI talent competition.
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The departures are symbolic blows to Google's AI prestige, but the real signal is where these researchers land—OpenAI and Anthropic are betting on next-gen architecture and scientific AI.
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Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week. →
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