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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Key takeaways
- John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google Deep Mind.
- Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added, “GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.”
- Bloomberg reports that Jumper was a key member of Google’s team developing coding tools, which the company has struggled to sell to businesses.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google Deep Mind.
In a post on X, Jumper wrote that Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance letting me lead the Alpha Fold team just six months after finishing my Ph D, and the entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science.”
Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added, “GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.”
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