Nobel Laureate John Jumper quits DeepMind for Anthropic as AI talent war heats up
In one of the most closely watched talent moves in artificial intelligence this year, Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper has announced that he is leaving Google’s AI research arm DeepMind to join rival AI startup Anthropic.
Jumper is not just another AI researcher changing employers. He is the scientist who helped build AlphaFold, the breakthrough artificial intelligence system that solved one of biology’s longest-standing challenges — predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences. The achievement earned Jumper and DeepMind co-founder and chief executive Demis Hassabis the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
