fourth (everyday google sufferer)
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@fourthfought
my safe word's one to ten in Japanese
Some new reporting in here from me: John Jumper has to serve a year of garden leave before he can start at Anthropic. That’s a long time in the AI world!!!!
DEVELOPING: John Jumper has to serve a year of garden leave before he can start at Anthropic, reports Hugh Langley, BI.
remember this? they were peacocking over topping sloparena man
talent movement goes both ways, but not equally. in 2024, Anthropic pulled 10.6 researchers from DeepMind for every 1 it lost back to them. i'd imagine it's even worse now
oh and Denny Zhou left goog quietly months ago
Bloomberg reporting that two more leading AI names are due to leave Google for Anthropic: Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Google’s Gemini AI model. Report on @TheTerminal from @byJuliaLove @nmasc_ and @rachelmetz
seems Addy Osmani has left google
Competing with ourselves is getting a bit boring
Google is still winning the AI talent war, Demis Hassabis told me today: semafor.com/article/06/23/…
Google is still winning the AI talent war, Demis Hassabis told me today: semafor.com/article/06/23/…
Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
