AI AlphaFold pioneer who won a Nobel Prize leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
16 hours ago
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- #Career Move
- John Jumper, a chemist and computer scientist, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic.
- Jumper co-led Google's AlphaFold team, an AI system that predicts protein structures, which he and Demis Hassabis won a Nobel Prize for in 2024.
- AlphaFold is a major breakthrough in medical research, providing over 200 million protein predictions that accelerate scientific discovery.
- Jumper's departure is part of a trend of tech leaders moving from companies like Google and Meta to AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI.
- He has not specified his new role at Anthropic and plans to take time off first.