Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
John Jumper, who recently shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced Friday that he is making the jump to Anthropic after “almost nine years” at Google DeepMind.
In a message on Xwrote Jumper that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance to let me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after completing my PhD, and the entire GDM team has taught me so much about how to do great science.”
Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added: “GDM is a special place, and I’m still excited to hear what amazing things they discover next.”
Bloomberg reports that Jumper was a key member of the Google team that develops coding toolswhich the company has had difficulty selling to companies. Noam Shazeer, co-founder of Character AI, also announced this week that he is leaving DeepMind – although in Shazeer’s case he is joining OpenAI.
Jumper and Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in 2024 for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their genetic sequences.
