# Alexander Pritzel

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## Timeline

- **2026-06-24**: Adler and Pritzel to join Anthropic — News breaks that two key Gemini AI researchers plan to defect to Anthropic, rattling Google's AI division.
- **2026-06-24**: Arthur Conmy announces move to Anthropic — Senior DeepMind engineer reveals on X he is joining Anthropic for AI safety work, further deepening Google's talent hemorrhage.
- **2026-06-24**: Alphabet stock dips 1.2% on talent exodus — Shares of Alphabet fall as much as 1.2% intraday before recovering slightly, reflecting investor anxiety over AI brain drain.
- **2026-06**: Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI — Star researcher exits Google after computing resources for his project were reassigned to a London team, highlighting internal tensions.
- **2026-06**: John Jumper joins Anthropic — Nobel laureate and DeepMind researcher moves to Anthropic, surprising the AI community.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### 2 More Google Gemini Engineers Defect to Anthropic, Stock Dips 1.2%
2026-06-25 04:12:40 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 3

Google’s AI brain drain intensifies as senior Gemini researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel plan to join Anthropic. The departures add to recent exits of Nobel laureate John Jumper and star engineer Noam Shazeer, raising alarms about Google's AI competitiveness and prompting a 1.2% stock drop.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/google-loses-two-ai-researchers-anthropic-june-2026

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