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David Silver, the legendary DeepMind researcher who architected AlphaGo and helped establish Google's dominance in artificial intelligence, is leaving to start his own company—a departure that signals growing tension between the world's top AI talent and the constraints of working inside tech giants. The move marks a significant brain drain at a moment when Google faces intensifying competition from OpenAI, Anthropic, and a new wave of well-funded startups hungry for the very expertise Silver spent a decade building at DeepMind. His exit raises urgent questions about whether even the richest companies can retain the visionaries reshaping AI, or whether the future of breakthrough research now lies outside the walls of Big Tech.
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