Nobel-winning AlphaFold lead John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic

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John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, announced on X he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly 9 years to join Anthropic. He credited CEO Demis Hassabis for taking a chance on him six months after his PhD. Bloomberg reports Jumper had been working on AI coding tools at Google.

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TechCrunch·Anthony Ha

Jun 20, 4:39 PM