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  • John Jumper Jumps to Anthropic, was right there.
    by HlessClaudesman
  • He will be back at Google after the Anthropic IPO.

    Seems like everyone here is easily fooled by the Anthropic hype. After the IPO, Anthropic won't be like the daycare it is today.

    Their main competitors are the chinese labs which are racing all their prices down close to $0.

    by rvz
  • Something seems afoot at Google. The real tell will be if Demis makes a move. Jeff Dean seems more like a lifer to me.
    by abraxas
  • Gemini fumbled not on the models but on the basics.

    Gemini 3.1 flash was actually an amazing model to code with and their 20 dollar AI plans had solid value, but they locked it all behind 429s, needless gatekeeping of clients and poor product differentiation even among internal offerings. Users moved on. To claude for the best product, to OpenAI for the non gatekept API access. It’s hard to bring them back.

    by hsaliak
  • Between this and Shazeer you guys are idolizing individuals in an unhealthy way IMO.

    Why are we keeping tabs on researchers moving around?

    You're talking about them like people talk about the NFL trading players or (football) soccer teams making recordbreaking player transfers.

    someone further down wrote

    > Anthropic legit builds one the strongest if not the strongest IC team in the history of computational technology.

    What a weird thing to say. It's not a team sport where you support 'sides'.

    by kingkongjaffa
  • Something spicy must have happened internally at Google. This rapid fire high level attrition isn't just down to the bureaucratic quagmire.
    by CuriouslyC
  • I did not "know" John personally, but we attended the same undergraduate program, concurrently. My workstudy job was supporting engineering/hardware for his specific school/program.

    Nothing but nice things were ever heard about him. In a school of egos, his was approachably humble [†]... reasoning and facts seemed to make him tick. My twin actually had classes with him (small school), but also didn't know him well... but knew he was a swell guy. None of his IT tickets were ever typical "rude rich Vandy kid" – he could solve/delegate most his own problems.

    So glad to see Vanderbilt secure yet another humble Laureate (Muhammud Yunis won his Nobel while we all were attending, I believe the previous alumnus-so).

    Keep it humble, fellow knowledge-seeker Human John. Howdy from KissamKissam.

    [†] most Obviously Brilliant-types "come off" as I_went_to_Harvard arrogant; not John ("awe" of his obvious brilliance?)

    by ProllyInfamous
  • Demis Hassabis posted a farewell for John Jumper on X: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2068002732250640603

    > Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

    by frays

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