Post #4229629
2026-07-30 06:15 UTC
no wonder the staff voted with their feet
Rather than rebelling against google, it seems like they where just poached by anthropic a short while before the project shut down:
Jumper [Alphahold VP and nobel winner] announced in June that he was leaving DeepMind to join Anthropic. A couple of his colleagues jumped ship to Anthropic, as well. DeepMind has confirmed to the Times that it also moved staff members internally to Gemini-focused projects. Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.
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@samvines@awful.systems 2026-07-30 07:24
Oh… Well that’s disappointing. I was an academic in computer science in the last 10 years or so and it has been so depressing seeing so many of my colleagues selling out to OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and even Google (for some reason the latter often gets a reputational free pass because people associate them with the golden days of big tech 10+ years ago)
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-07-30 09:16
Depends on what Anthropic wants to do with the poached people.