AI BriefingNobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Rival Anthropic
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John Jumper, the key figure behind AlphaFold's development and a Nobel Chemistry Prize winner, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic.
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John Jumper, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced that he is leaving Google DeepMind, where he spent 9 years, to join rival Anthropic.
Via X (formerly Twitter), Jumper expressed gratitude to CEO Demis Hassabis for giving him the opportunity to lead the AlphaFold team right after his PhD, saying his experience at DeepMind greatly helped him become a great scientist.
Meanwhile, DeepMind has recently been experiencing a talent exodus. This week, news broke that Noam Shazeer, co-founder of Character AI, is moving to OpenAI.
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