Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold scientist John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
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John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who led the AlphaFold team at Google DeepMind for nearly a decade, is leaving to join AI competitor Anthropic. Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for their groundbreaking work on AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures. His move to Anthropic marks a significant talent acquisition for the AI safety-focused company and a notable loss for Google DeepMind.
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· 2 pulledJohn Jumper, a key member of the team at Google DeepMind for nearly a decade, is decamping for Anthropic.
Google DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis (L) and John M. Jumper, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, after they won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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