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Google Deepmind: Leadership Change
Nobel laureate John Jumper is departing Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. This follows the recent departures of Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI) and AlphaGo researcher David Silver (starting his own company) within weeks.
Source: PYMNTS
The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader artificial intelligence bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 113.4 (Hot) (up 13.7 month-on-month), Americas is at easing (-3.1pts) on signal share.
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