AlphaFold pioneer who won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
Google DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis (L) and John M. Jumper, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, after they won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A key Google DeepMind engineer is leaving for Anthropic. He's the latest Silicon Valley name to join the AI giant. John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Google's AlphaFold technology. John Jumper, a chemist and computer scientist who once won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis , announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. He's the latest Silicon Valley name to jump ship for the AI startup darling. Jumper worked at Google for nearly a decade. "The entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science," he wrote in an X post on Friday. "GDM is a special place, and I'll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next." Jumper is best known for spearheading Google's AlphaFold te...