Comment by paxys

Google Brain clearly had the culture over the last decade and a half that resulted in basically 100% of the AI breakthroughs we are seeing today, and all the top minds in the field had no problem working there. What changed in the span of a couple years? Only that the tech became production-ready and the rest of the world took notice, and these researchers and engineers decided that they no longer needed Google's money since there was so much available from everywhere else. This is what directly led to the founding of OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Adept and probably hundreds of other small to mid sized AI startups. There isn't really anything in terms of cultural or organization changes that Google could have done to prevent this.