More than half of the 39 people who left Google for Anthropic this year are researchers and engineers

Asked:

“Who moved from Google to Anthropic this year? How many people and mostly from which roles ?”

Public news reports and professional profiles through September 4, 2026 name at least 39 people who moved directly from Google, Google DeepMind, Google Research, Google Cloud or Alphabet to Anthropic this year. AI research & software engineering leads with 21 of 39 (53.8%), but the moves also span sales, infrastructure and energy, security, finance and recruiting.

39people identified, 2026 YTD

36started / confirmed

3announced / planned

Where the 39 movers came from, by role family

Moves by month, 2026

The three announced-but-not-yet-started moves are all senior Google DeepMind scientists — John Jumper, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — reported in June. nowosci.ai, technocrats.news

Nearly one in four movers (9 of 39) work outside product and research entirely — in sales & partnerships or infrastructure, energy & chips — the go-to-market and scaling talent behind the models. constructiondigital.com

June was the busiest month with 9 moves, and April–June together account for 24 of the 39 — a clear mid-year acceleration. linkedin.com

Most confirmed engineers and researchers land under Anthropic's single generic title “Member of Technical Staff”; several news-only moves list no Anthropic title at all, and those cells are left blank below. linkedin.com

The roster, grouped by role family

Person	Month	Google role · unit	Anthropic role	Status	Source

Method: 39 rows, one per named person, compiled from broad 2026 web-news scans and public professional-profile searches through September 4, 2026, then deduplicated by name. Public profiles supply much of the long tail; notable research, infrastructure and executive moves come from news reports, several of which give no precise job title (shown blank). Counts and role-group percentages are taken directly from the compiled dataset. Read the total as “at least 39 publicly identifiable direct moves,” not total Google attrition or official Anthropic hiring data.

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