“I think we saw this battle play out recently where Jeff Dean and others left Google”
Claim: Jeff Dean and other senior AI researchers recently left Google.
Evidence. Jeff Dean announced in Aug 2026 that he was leaving Google after 27 years to start a company, Discovery Loop; reports named Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le among colleagues leaving with him.
His theory of why they left (compute going to cloud customers) he flags as unconfirmed; it is not rated.