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Google Missed Its Own Deadline. Again. And Four Researchers Just Left.
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June GA window as Q2 closes today. Four senior Gemini researchers announced they're joining Anthropic the same week. The timing is the story.
The Nobel Laureate Who Joined Anthropic Mid-Crisis
John Jumper, the AlphaFold creator who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, while Fable 5 was still offline under a US export ban.
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exits land at once.
China Is Treating Its AI Researchers as State Assets
China imposed overseas travel restrictions on top AI researchers at DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other firms, requiring government approval before leaving the country.