No, Google DeepMind did not invest $75M in A24 for AI movie tools

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research initiative focused on filmmaking tools.

John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for developing the AlphaFold protein-structure prediction model, has announced he is leaving DeepMind to join Anthropicafter nearly nine years at the company. Jumper had most recently been working on coding tools at DeepMind, an area Google has struggled to […]

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching June 21-27. Weekend AI News Briefs John Jumper Leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic John Jumper said in a post on X that he will leave Google DeepMind after nearly nine years and plans to join Anthropic following a break. […]

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

Jumper's move to Anthropic highlights shifting AI talent dynamics, questioning if large-scale firms can retain top innovators amid rising competition. The post Google DeepMind vice president John Jumper joins Anthropic after Nobel win appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

OpenAI has recruited two high-profile figures as it prepares for its public market debut: Noam Shazeer, one of the foundational architects of modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official. Shazeer announced his departure from Google DeepMind on Wednesday after more than two decades at the company, interrupted only […]

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.