Nobel Laureate Gets Doxxed, Stock Price Plummets, Google's AI Chief Fires Back: TPU Performance Still Holds the Trump Card

According to Data Beat monitoring, facing a series of departures of core scientists, Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis responded positively at the Cannes Creativity Festival, insisting that Google is still able to recruit and retain the top scientists.

Not long ago, one of the founders of Transformer, Noam Shazeer, and AlphaFold key figure John Jumper's resignations triggered collective anxiety on Wall Street about Google's talent retention capability, even causing the company's stock price to plummet by as much as 7% in a single day. However, Hassabis appeared confident and stated that Google still has the industry's largest and most deeply skilled research team.

In Hassabis's view, the high turnover of AI talent is quite normal in the world's most competitive job market. Google's ace lies in the underlying network woven by data, integrated hardware, and computing power, especially its customized TPU computing cluster, which remains an irreplaceable asset in attracting top researchers. Additionally, the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023 has consolidated the previously scattered R&D resources into a unified force.

Semafor believes that the departure of top researchers is more of a public relations crisis than an operational crisis for Google. The real talent battle in the AI field takes place in academia, as the next generation of algorithm breakthroughs is more likely to be determined by young scholars who have just graduated rather than executives resting on their laurels.