Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
John Jumper, who shared a latest Nobel Prize in chemistry, introduced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “practically 9 years” at Google DeepMind.
In a submit on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took an actual probability letting me lead the AlphaFold group simply six months after ending my PhD, and your entire GDM group taught me a lot about find out how to do nice science.”
Jumper (pictured above proper, with Hassabis) added, “GDM is a particular place, and I’ll nonetheless be excited to listen to about what wonderful issues they uncover subsequent.”
Bloomberg studies that Jumper was a key member of Google’s group growing coding instruments, which the corporate has struggled to promote to companies. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer additionally introduced this week that he’s leaving DeepMind — although in Shazeer’s case, he’s becoming a member of OpenAI.
Jumper and Hassabis gained the Nobel Prize in 2024 for his or her work on AlphaFold, an AI mannequin that may predict the 3D construction of proteins primarily based on their genetic sequences.
