Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind to join rival Anthropic
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Anthony Ha
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John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who led the AlphaFold team at Google DeepMind, announced he is leaving after nearly 9 years to join rival AI company Anthropic. Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for their work on AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures. His departure follows a pattern of high-profile exits from Google DeepMind to Anthropic.
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· 3 pulledJohn Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he's making the leap to Anthropic after 'nearly 9 years' at Google DeepMind.
In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis 'took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science.'
Jumper added, 'GDM is a special place, and I'll still be excited to'
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