John Jumper, who shared a latest Nobel Prize in chemistry, introduced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “practically 9 years” at Google DeepMind.
In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took an actual likelihood letting me lead the AlphaFold group simply six months after ending my PhD, and your complete GDM group taught me a lot about tips on how to do nice science.”
Jumper (pictured above proper, with Hassabis) added, “GDM is a particular place, and I’ll nonetheless be excited to listen to about what superb issues they uncover subsequent.”
Bloomberg stories that Jumper was a key member of Google’s team developing coding tools, which the corporate has struggled to promote to companies. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer additionally introduced this week that he’s leaving DeepMind — although in Shazeer’s case, he’s becoming a member of OpenAI.
Jumper and Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in 2024 for his or her work on AlphaFold, an AI mannequin that may predict the 3D construction of proteins based mostly on their genetic sequences.
