Exclusive: Bridgewater's chief scientist Sekhon to join Google's DeepMind AI unit

One of Wall Street's most secretive firms is losing its crown jewel to Big Tech, as Bridgewater Associates' chief scientist Maninder Sekhon is defecting to Google DeepMind in a sign that the world's most ambitious AI research is increasingly concentrated at a handful of trillion-dollar corporations. The departure marks a rare crack in the armor of Bridgewater, the $150 billion hedge fund known for its obsessive retention of top talent and algorithmic edge, and suggests that even unparalleled resources and mystique cannot compete with the frontier challenges now unfolding at the AI labs of Google and its peers. Sekhon's move underscores a broader brain drain from finance

Reuters·5d ago