# Anthropic Poaches Four Top Scholars in Two Weeks: Nobel Laureate and Berkeley Department Chair Join in Quick Succession

> A sitting university department chair leaving mid-term for a lab is a strange kind of tell. It suggests the AI talent war has moved past poaching individual engineers and started pulling out the people who train the next generation of them, which compounds in ways a single hire never does. Watch whether universities respond with real retention money or just accept a slow drain of who gets to teach the frontier.

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## Wortins' read

A sitting university department chair leaving mid-term for a lab is a strange kind of tell. It suggests the AI talent war has moved past poaching individual engineers and started pulling out the people who train the next generation of them, which compounds in ways a single hire never does. Watch whether universities respond with real retention money or just accept a slow drain of who gets to teach the frontier.

## Source

[Read the full story at BigGo Finance](https://finance.biggo.com/news/83e515a4-b131-49d7-afff-7cd1d9af9b2c)

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