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Alphabet is now funding the startup built by the researchers it lost
Jeff Dean has left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with three colleagues, and Alphabet has taken a founding investment alongside a cloud partnership, on the same day Demis Hassabis gave up operational control of Google DeepMind.
Two Trillion-Dollar Bets, One Constraint: What Anthropic’s Filing and Google’s $80bn Raise Reveal About the AI Endgame
On a single day, two of the largest forces in AI – Anthropic and Google made opposite wagers on compute. One is selling itself to the public, the other is buying everything it can build, and only one bet can pay out.