{"id":197601,"date":"2025-10-08T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:26:10","slug":"anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-exit-of-star-ai-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197601\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s \u2018anti-China\u2019 stance triggers exit of star AI researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI start-up\u2019s \u201canti-China statements\u201d as a key reason for his departure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yao Shunyu, according to a post on his website on Monday, left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind, partly because of his \u201cstrong\u201d opposition to the start-up\u2019s characterisation of China as an \u201cadversarial nation\u201d and its broader rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic labelled China as so last month when it began barring subsidiaries of Chinese companies anywhere in the world from accessing its services.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAlthough, to be clear, I believe most of the people at Anthropic disagree with such a [characterisation], I don\u2019t think there is a way for me to stay,\u201d Yao wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google DeepMind has hired Yao Shunyu as a senior research scientist in its core Gemini team developing its flagship foundational models. Photo: Dreamstime\/TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aa0ce0e8-c6af-4062-9002-1b151cb2bd38_5e070834.jpg\" title=\"Google DeepMind has hired Yao Shunyu as a senior research scientist in its core Gemini team developing its flagship foundational models. Photo: Dreamstime\/TNS\"\/>Google DeepMind has hired Yao Shunyu as a senior research scientist in its core Gemini team developing its flagship foundational models. Photo: Dreamstime\/TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to his resume, Yao earned a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics from Stanford University. He did his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University, where he earned the presidential award and the Yeh Chi-Sun prize, the highest awards for undergraduates at the elite Chinese institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10415,97884,1930,49,48,95,97882,97885,15740,27102,278,66,10532,32734,12154,182,97883],"class_list":{"0":"post-197601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ai-research","9":"tag-american-ai-firms","10":"tag-anthropic","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-ai","15":"tag-claude-sonnet-model","16":"tag-google-deepmind","17":"tag-meta-platforms","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-stanford-university","21":"tag-tencent-holdings","22":"tag-tsinghua-university","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-yao-shunyu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}