Nobel laureates dug up, stock prices plummet, Google AI leader responds hard: TPU computing power is still the trump card According to Beating monitoring, faced with the continuous loss of core scientists, Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, hit back head-on at the Cannes Creative Festival, insisting that Google can still recruit and retain the top scientists. Not long ago, the departures of Noam Shazeer, one of the founders of Transformer, and John Jumper, a hero of AlphaFold, triggered collective anxiety on Wall Street about Google's talent retention ability, and even led to a drop of up to 7% in the company's stock price within a day. But Hassabis appeared confident and stated that Google still has the largest and most heavily backed research team in the industry. In Hassabis' view, the high-frequency flow of AI talent is quite normal in the world's most intense job market. Google's ace lies in the underlying network woven from data, integrated hardware, and computing power, especially the customized TPU computing power cluster, which remains an irreplaceable chip in attracting top researchers. Meanwhile, the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023 has also consolidated previously dispersed research and development resources into a fist. Semafor believes that the departure of top researchers is more like a public relations crisis for Google than an operational crisis. The real talent battle in the field of AI occurs in universities, as it is more likely that young scholars who have just graduated from school, rather than executives lying on credit books, will determine the breakthroughs of the next generation of algorithms. [Original link]