Nobel Laureate Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival AI company Anthropic. He credited DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for giving him the opportunity to lead the AlphaFold team shortly after completing his PhD. The departure is part of a broader talent shift, as Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer also announced his exit from DeepMind this week, heading to OpenAI. AlphaFold is an AI model that predicts the 3D structure of proteins from genetic sequences.