The technology world is witnessing a clear wave of human resource migration in recent years as Big Tech's CEO and senior developer in Silicon Valley have left renowned companies to switch to decentralized technology projects. Typically, four of the best newly funded AI startups - Inflection, Cohere, Adept and Anthropic - have recently attracted dozens of AI scientists from Big Tech.
Recruitment efforts by startups are being boosted as these companies have raised more than $1 billion and are using the huge amount of finances to hunt for talented individuals and high-paid experts at leading technology companies.
The same review is from four startups in the field of Artificial Intelligence - where senior developers are working.
Inflection AI
According to LinkedIn, although Inflection AI was only launched in March, the company has mobilized more than 225 million USD with less than 10 employees. The company is headquartered in California with the top goal of developing AI software products that help people communicate with computers easily through a simple language.
Inflection AI is led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who previously left the position of Deputy Director of AI Product Management and AI policy role at Google.
DeepMinder Heinrich Kuttler left his role as technical director of research at Meta AI in London in March to become a founding member at Inflection, working in the company's technical aspects. Meanwhile, Joe Fenton left his role as senior product director at Google in February to also become a founding member at Inflection, working in the product aspect of the business.
Cohere
A competitor competing with Inflection for leading technology talent is Cohere, a company founded in Toronto in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst.
Cohere has raised about $170 million from funds such as Index Ventures and Tiger Global with the desire to create an interface that allows software developers to use complex AI technology on their applications.
This AI technology, called natural language processing (NLP), will allow developers to deploy new features and services to their software products.
AI scientists and DeepMind alums Ed Grefenstette and Phil Blunsom are among the newest AI scientists to join Cohere. Grefenstette is the head of machine learning at Cohere and Blunsom is the company's chief scientist.
Anthropic
Another company that is creating a new wave in the AI field is Anthropic, a company led by former OpenAI Deputy Research Director Dario Amodei.
Anthropic is known as an AI research and safety company with the goal of building AI systems that can be reliably interpreted and can be monitored.
Amodei founded the company with the help of several other former OpenAI employees, including Jack Clark, Tom Brown, Sam McCandlish and his younger sister Daniela Amodei.
Adept
One of the other famous startups that has also been built by some of the big names in the machine learning field is Adept AI Labs.
The co-founder include CEO David Luan (formerly Director of Google Research and Deputy Technical Director at OpenAI), Niki Parmar (formerly employee research scientist at Google brain) and Ashish vaswani (former employee research scientist at Google brain).
Adept wants to create an AI assistant that employees can work with to solve almost every task together. While the tool will initially focus on productivity, Adept hopes that people will be able to use the company's AI technology in the medium term.
