John Jumper, who recently shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on Friday that Google is making the leap to Anthropic after “about 9 years” at DeepMind.
In Writing in XJumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance to lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me a lot about doing great science.”
Jumper (above right, with Hassabis) added: “GDM is a special place and I’m still excited to hear what amazing things they discover next.”
Bloomberg reports that there was a Jumper a key member of the Google team that develops coding toolswhich the company has difficulty selling to businesses. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer also announced this week Leaving DeepMind — although in Shazeer’s case, it joins OpenAI.
Jumper and Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize for their work on AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their genetic sequence.
