Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

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John Jumper, who shared a caller Nobel Prize successful chemistry, announced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic aft “nearly 9 years” astatine Google DeepMind.

In a station connected X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a existent accidental letting maine pb the AlphaFold squad conscionable six months aft finishing my PhD, and the full GDM squad taught maine truthful overmuch astir however to bash large science.”

Jumper (pictured supra right, with Hassabis) added, “GDM is simply a peculiar place, and I’ll inactive beryllium excited to perceive astir what astonishing things they observe next.”

Bloomberg reports that Jumper was a cardinal subordinate of Google’s squad processing coding tools, which the institution has struggled to merchantability to businesses. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer besides announced this week that he’s leaving DeepMind — though successful Shazeer’s case, he’s joining OpenAI. 

Jumper and Hassabis won the Nobel Prize successful 2024 for their enactment connected AlphaFold, an AI exemplary that tin foretell the 3D operation of proteins based connected their familial sequences.

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