Bad brain drain at Google, the Nobel laureate left – Stock in sharp decline

Google’s parent company Alphabetin about 270 billion dollars are being wiped off the market value today, while the company’s stock is down 5.6 percent.

A company investing heavily in artificial intelligence has lost two of its artificial intelligence leaders to competitors in a short period of time. One of them has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 John Jumperwho said on Friday that he is moving to the developer of the Claude artificial intelligence model To Anthropic.

Last week, the second driver of Google’s Gemini AI model Noam Shazeer said he was leaving the Google DeepMind lab to join Open AI, the developer of ChatGPT.

Shazeer joined Google a few years ago Character.ai-startup as part of a $2.7 billion deal between the companies.

AI companies are undergoing an investment rush of hundreds of billions of dollars as they compete to develop the best and most popular AI. The departures of top executives raise concerns about whether Google will keep up with other companies.