Google has lost two more heavyweight AI core researchers to Anthropic, causing its stock prices to fall.

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25/06/2026
Two top Google artificial intelligence researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pricer, plan to resign and join competing company Anthropic. This talent drain is a continuation of Google's recent departures of several core technical staff, which may weaken Google's industry position in the field of artificial intelligence; earlier, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry John J. Kammer, and star researcher Norm Shamzell also respectively joined Anthropic and OpenAI. This series of personnel changes highlights the competitive pressure facing Google: Anthropic and OpenAI, two startups, are about to launch IPOs, and employees who join before the listing can receive a rare high equity return, which is highly attractive to senior research and development personnel from top tech companies. Google's stock price quickly dropped by 0.6%.