en.Wedoany.com Reported - Denny Zhou, the founder of the DeepMind reasoning team, has left Google and quietly joined Meta as a Research Scientist at MSL. It was only after his LinkedIn profile was updated that the public learned this scholar, whose research was once personally promoted by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, has been working at Meta for four months.

Zhou joined Google Brain in 2017 and founded the reasoning team, which later merged into the Gemini team at Google DeepMind. He previously worked at Microsoft for nearly 11 years before being attracted to Google by the Google AI China Center initiative led by Fei-Fei Li. He has made significant contributions to foundational large language model work such as CoT, Self-Consistency, and Least-to-Most Prompting, with over 128,000 Google Scholar citations.

Dawn Song has officially joined Meta as Vice President of AI Research at MSL. This UC Berkeley professor holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, a master's from CMU, and a PhD from UC Berkeley, and has taught at Berkeley for 19 years. She has approximately 169,000 citations in the field of computer security. The AI security company Virtue AI, which she founded in 2024, has been fully integrated into Meta, including herself and two other co-founders.

Google has recently experienced multiple cases of core talent attrition. On June 18, Noam Shazeer, a core author of the Transformer paper, left Google to join OpenAI. In 2024, Google acquired his startup Character.AI for $2.7 billion, but he left within two years. On June 19, John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, moved to Anthropic. Subsequently, Gemini core contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel also joined Anthropic.

According to The Information, the research scope of Google's newly established AI Coding Strike Team has expanded to Midtraining, rather than focusing solely on engineering optimization at the Agent level. The team is guided by DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu and co-founder Sergey Brin. In an internal memo, Brin urged an urgent effort to close the Agent gap and make Gemini the primary coding tool. This move indicates that Google is restructuring Gemini's training approach with coding as the top priority, diverging from DeepMind's originally envisioned general artificial intelligence roadmap. Sources close to DeepMind revealed that the world model project is progressing poorly, requiring the Gemini team to adjust and refocus.

Noam Shazeer previously stated that his reason for leaving was that computing resources were allocated to other teams. Google's decision to prioritize the needs of the Coding Strike Team contrasts with the commercial validation Anthropic and OpenAI have achieved on the coding track.

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