A string of key talent departures sent shares of Google parent Alphabet to their steepest one-day decline in a year, with attention turning to the reasons behind the "talent exodus." Alphabet shares closed Tuesday at $349.68, down 4.99% from the previous trading day, and market capitalization fell by $225 billion (346 trillion won). Analysts say that as the Google organization has grown bloated, talent is flocking to AI startups and Big Tech firms that can make decisions more quickly. Noam Shazeer, a vice president who developed the "Transformer" neural network in 2017 and co-led Google's AI model "Gemini," announced on the 17th that he was leaving Google to join OpenAI. John Jumper, a Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and led development of the AlphaFold2 model unveiled in 2020, announced on the 19th that he was moving to Anthropic. Shazeer had previously resigned in 2021 and founded "Character.ai," which Google acquired for $2.7 billion. Technology analyst Gil Luria analyzed that the departure raises concerns Google is falling behind in the competition to secure talent in the cutting-edge AI field. A former employee, Praveen Seshadri, criticized that employees are "trapped in a maze of approval processes, launch procedures, legal reviews, performance evaluations, executive reviews, documentation work, meetings, error reporting, problem