John Jumper, who shared a current 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 probability letting me lead the AlphaFold staff simply six months after ending my PhD, and all the GDM staff taught me a lot about the best way 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 wonderful issues they uncover subsequent.”
Bloomberg reviews 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 gained 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.
