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Why is Google suddenly losing AI talent? The lure of pre-IPO equity is strong.
Alistair Barr
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Why is Google suddenly losing AI talent? The lure of pre-IPO equity is strong.
Alistair Barr
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Noam Shazeer is leaving Google to join OpenAI.
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2026-06-25T09:00:08.180Z
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If you want to see a person's eyes light up at a Silicon Valley party, just say the words "pre-IPO equity." It works.
Google's sudden
AI talent losses
may have less to do with dissatisfaction and more to do with a timeless Silicon Valley calculation: where the biggest equity upside lives.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that two key Gemini researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving Google for Anthropic, adding to a growing list of high-profile departures from the search giant. The moves follow recent exits by AI luminaries, including
Noam Shazeer
and Nobel Prize winner
John Jumper
.
It's tempting to frame these departures as a verdict on Google's AI strategy. That could be part of it — Google has many priorities, while Anthropic and OpenAI are razor-focused on the AI frontier. That's attractive to AI talent.
A simpler explanation may be financial, though.
For elite Silicon Valley talent, moving from a mature public company to a fast-growing startup has long been one of the most reliable paths to outsized wealth creation — especially if the startup is an
candidate.
At Google, compensation is mostly tied to
at a company that already commands a market capitalization of over $4 trillion. The upside is substantial bu
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