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A rare shake-up in the AI power game: Chinese physicist and AI researcher Yao Shunyu has left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind.

In a blog post, he cited Anthropic’s characterization of China as an “adversarial nation” — along with its ban on subsidiaries of Chinese companies — as the key reason for his departure. At DeepMind, Yao will join the core Gemini team.

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🇨🇳 The trigger: Anthropic had blocked access for subsidiaries of Chinese firms and labeled China an …

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