• Two senior Google AI researchers are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within a week.
• Reports point to internal concern over Google’s developer-facing AI coding products.
• The departures raises questions of whether Google can hold onto senior researchers.

Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold’s John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week.