Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What happened Noam Shazeer, Google's VP of Engineering and co-lead of the Gemini model family, announced on 18 June 2026 that he was leaving for OpenAI. Shazeer co-authored the 2017 "Attention Is All You Need" paper that introduced the Transformer architecture underpinning virtually every major large language model in production today, including GPT, Gemini and Claude. John Jumper, a Google DeepMind vice president and co-creator of AlphaFold, announced on 19 June 2026 — the very next day — that he was leaving to join Anthropic after nearly nine years at the lab. Jumper shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's breakthrough in predicting protein structures. Alphabet's stock fell hard on 22 June, dropping as much as 7.2% intraday — its steepest intraday move since February —…
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