Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said in June 2026 that Google is still winning the AI talent race, even as high-profile researchers have left for OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and other rivals. His claim is not just defensive executive spin; it is a statement about what kind of institution wins...
John Jumper, the American computational biologist and Google DeepMind vice president who helped lead AlphaFold to a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said on June 19, 2026, that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic after a break. The move is more than a celebrity...