Ruiqi Gao Leaves Google After 7 Years to Join Anthropic

AI researcher Ruiqi Gao announced her departure from Google Brain/DeepMind after a seven-year tenure to join Anthropic. She will be contributing to the development of the Claude model. This career move has garnered attention and welcome responses from peers in the AI community.

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According to Ruiqi Gao, her last day at Google was the previous Monday. Reflecting on her seven-year career, she noted that her journey started with an internship and she was grateful for the opportunity to work alongside researchers she deeply admires. Moving forward, her focus at Anthropic will be on helping the team build a better Claude model.

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