Core Viewpoint - Google recently announced that its DeepMind team won an IMO gold medal, but shortly after, three key team members were reported to have left for Meta, highlighting a talent drain in the AI sector [1][19]. Group 1: Key Personnel Changes - Three critical figures involved in the training of the Gemini model, Du Yu, Tianhe Yu, and Wang Weiyue, have left Google for Meta [2][3]. - Du Yu has been a significant contributor to the Gemini series models and has worked on Google's conversational AI products [9]. - Tianhe Yu, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, was responsible for the reinforcement learning and training of Gemini, playing a key role in the release of Gemini 2.5 [10]. - Wang Weiyue, a principal research engineer at Google DeepMind, contributed to Gemini 2.5 Pro and has a background in computer vision [13][14]. Group 2: Competitive Landscape - Mark Zuckerberg's recruitment of talent from Google is part of a broader trend, as Microsoft has also been reported to have poached over 20 talents from Google DeepMind [19]. - Amar Subramanya, the former engineering lead for Gemini, has joined Microsoft AI as a vice president, indicating a shift in talent dynamics within the AI industry [19]. - The talent acquisition efforts by Microsoft have been ongoing for six months, led by Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, adding a layer of complexity to the competitive landscape [21].

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