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Comment by lordswork | Hacker News Reader

Is there any truth behind this claim that folks who worked on Gemma have left Google?

https://x.com/yar_vol/status/1760314018575634842

I confirmed all the folks listed on page 12 are still at Google (listed below). I am guessing the linked tweet is a BS claim.

   # Product Management
   Tris Warkentin
   Ludovic Peran

   # Program Management
   Minh Giang

   # Executive Sponsors
   Clement Farabet
   Oriol Vinyals
   Jeff Dean
   Koray Kavukcuoglu
   Demis Hassabis
   Zoubin Ghahramani
   Douglas Eck
   Joelle Barral
   Fernando Pereira
   Eli Collins

   # Leads
   Armand Joulin
   Noah Fiedel
   Evan Senter

   # Tech Leads
   Alek Andreev†
   Kathleen Kenealy†

Always funny to see your own name as you scroll through HN comments =). You're right, though!

It seems very easy to check no? Look at the names in the paper and check where they are working now

Good idea. I've confirmed all the leadership / tech leads listed on page 12 are still at Google.

Can someone with a Twitter account call out the tweet linked above and ask them specifically who they are referring to? Seems there is no evidence of their claim.

It's also possible Google removed names of people who left. It's not really a research paper, more a marketing piece, so it might be possible (I don't think they would do that with a conf paper)

We'll see if the person making this claim responds with specific Gemma developers that have left. Otherwise, I think it's safe to assume they are just lying.

Them: here to answer questions

Question

Them: :O

To be fair, I think they are in London, so I assume they have winded down for the day. Will probably have to wait ~12-18 hours for a response.

To be fair, the tweet says that they don't work on the models at Google anymore, not that they have left Google.

Might be true, might not be. It's unsourced speculation.

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