Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
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John Jumper, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, announced he is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a rival AI company, after nearly 9 years at DeepMind. Jumper and DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis shared the Nobel Prize in 2024 for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts protein structures from genetic sequences. This departure is part of a broader shift, as another key DeepMind researcher, Noam Shazeer, also announced this week he is leaving the company, though he is joining OpenAI instead.
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