John Jumper: Nobel Prize Winner Quits Google DeepMind For Anthropic
John Jumper: Nobel Prize Winner Quits Google DeepMind For Anthropic
Publish Date: 2026-06-19 22:42:00
Source Domain: www.ndtv.com
- Google DeepMind’s Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the AI model AlphaFold, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
- Jumper’s departure adds to the competition between Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI in the race to develop powerful AI models.
- Former employees claim that Google has struggled to sell its AI coding tools to businesses, unlike Anthropic and OpenAi which have seen growth in this area.
- Jumper cites the chance given by Demis Hassabis when he joined DeepMind as a recent PhD graduate, and his satisfaction in the advancements made with AlphaFold as reasons for his departure.
- This move comes after another key Google DeepMind researcher, Noam Shazeer, left for OpenAI, indicating significant shifts in personnel as these companies compete to develop advanced AI models.
- Jumper’s academic background includes a Marshall Scholarship from Cambridge and a PhD in theoretical chemistry from the University of Chicago.
