**[Two More Key Gemini Members Depart, Google DeepMind Faces Targeted Talent Drain]** According to monitoring by Beating, Google DeepMind has once again lost core AI talent, as Gemini key contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel plan to join Anthropic. In recent days, Google has consecutively lost AlphaFold team leader and 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner John Jumper (who has moved to Anthropic), as well as Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (who has joined OpenAI as Head of Architecture Research). Additionally, senior research engineer Arthur Conmy, who was dedicated to Gemini 2.5 and AI coding, has announced his move from London to San Francisco to join Anthropic, where he will focus on alignment during model training. Canadian researcher Rishub Jain, who worked at DeepMind for seven years, has also recently left and plans to establish a nonprofit organization focused on scalable AI safety and human oversight. The reallocation of computational resources directly contributed to Shazeer’s departure. Prior to his resignation, Google optimized cross-team collaboration by reallocating computational resources originally belonging to Shazeer’s team to DeepMind’s London pre-training team. This caused Shazeer’s ongoing research into variant Transformer architectures to be hindered due to insufficient computational power. The successive departure of multiple scientists directly highlights DeepMind’s current retention crisis, forcing CEO Demis Hassabis to publicly admit at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that competition for AI talent is at its fiercest in the history of the tech industry. According to industry analysis published by SignalFire, the probability of DeepMind engineers jumping to Anthropic is 11 times higher than the reverse. Recently, Anthropic, which completed a Series H funding round at a valuation of $965 billion, has been leveraging high salaries, equity options, and autonomous research opportunities to siphon talent from Google’s pool. Due to the longer non-compete agreement cycles under UK law, researchers like Jumper from London may need to wait until late 2026 or 2027 before officially starting work at Anthropic. With Jumper’s departure, the core members of the AlphaFold team have gradually left in recent months. Some have transitioned to Isomorphic Labs, a drug development company incubated by Google, while others have chosen to follow Jumper and join Anthropic. Anthropic is actively expanding into the life sciences and healthcare sectors, with its $965 billion valuation and planned fall IPO providing employees with significant financial rewards. [Original Link]