As Google's AI Empire Expands, Core Talent Exodus Accelerates; Battle Between Cloud Business and Frontier Research Intensifies

TechFlow reports, August 6, according to CNBC, Google is facing a deep contradiction between AI talent drain and commercial expansion. Chief Scientist Jeff Dean announced his departure after serving Google for 27 years, co-founding the new company Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and others, focusing on automated research in machine learning and science engineering; meanwhile, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis also stepped down as CEO, transitioning to Chairman and taking on the role of Alphabet Chief Scientist, focusing on long-term AGI research, handing over day-to-day management to Technical Director Koray Kavukcuoglu. It is worth noting that the eight authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need", which laid the foundation for generative AI, have now all left Google.