Google DeepMind's Head of Developer Experience, Omar Sanseviero, has extended an invitation to members of the Qwen team to join their efforts in building open models. Sanseviero, who previously led Hugging Face's open-source initiatives, highlighted "many exciting plans" on the horizon for DeepMind. This invitation comes as the Qwen team, part of Alibaba, experiences a wave of departures, with both domestic and international competitors vying for their expertise.