John Jumper, who recently shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced Friday that he is making the jump to Anthropic after “about 9 years” at Google DeepMind.
In a post on xJumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “gave me a real opportunity to lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me a lot about how to do great science.”
Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) said, “GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear what amazing things they discover next.”
Bloomberg reports that the jumper was A key member of Google’s team that developed coding toolsThe company has struggled to sell businesses. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazir also announced this week He is leaving DeepMind – Although in Shazir’s case, he is joining OpenAI.
Jumper and Hassabis to win Nobel Prize in 2024 For his work on AlphaFold, an AI model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their genetic sequences.
