Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
TL;DR
- John Jumper, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic.
- Jumper spent nearly nine years at Google DeepMind, where he led the AlphaFold team.
- AlphaFold is an AI model that predicts protein structures from genetic sequences, for which Jumper and Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize.
- Jumper thanked the DeepMind team, including CEO Demis Hassabis, for the opportunities he was given.
- Noam Shazeer, co-founder of Character AI, is also leaving DeepMind to join OpenAI.
- Jumper was reportedly a key member of Google's team developing coding tools.