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Nobel Laureate John Jumper Is Leaving DeepMind for Rival Anthropic
John Jumper, who helped develop AlphaFold, is joining Anthropic after nearly a decade at Google DeepMind as AI startups compete for talent.
- John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for creating AlphaFold, is leaving the company after nearly nine years to join Anthropic.
- Jumper spearheaded the AlphaFold team, an AI system that predicts protein structures and has been used by more than 2 million scientists across 190 countries to accelerate medical research.
- The departure lands one day after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer announced he was leaving Google for OpenAI, making this the second landmark talent loss for Google's AI operation in 48 hours.
- Expanding its life sciences division, Anthropic recently acquired Coefficient Bio for $400 million to bolster computational biology capabilities and drive Claude Code adoption.
- Whether the AlphaFold creator can replicate his breakthrough outside the lab that made it possible remains uncertain, as Google faces persistent challenges retaining top talent despite significant spending.
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