John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC. Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence. He won the Nobel alongside Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for creating AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts protein structures. Jumper has been a key member of Google’s AI coding development team, spearheading the AlphaFold team. He announced his departure on X, expressing gratitude for his time at Google DeepMind. A company spokesperson confirmed his exit, thanking him for his contributions. What's interesting is that this follows another high-profile departure. Just days before, Noam Shazeer, VP of engineering at Google and co-lead of Gemini, announced he is joining OpenAI. Shazeer co-authored a paper that helped catalyze the AI boom. These movements show a significant shift of top talent within the artificial intelligence industry.