{"id":234536,"date":"2026-06-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/nobel-prize-ai-researcher-leaves-google-to-anthropic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:55:17","slug":"nobel-prize-ai-researcher-leaves-google-to-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/nobel-prize-ai-researcher-leaves-google-to-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859496\">Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859496\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859496<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-21 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google DeepMind&#8217;s vice president John Jumper, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AI, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.<\/li>\n<li>Jumper&#8217;s departure is significant as he has been a key member of Google&#8217;s AI coding development team, impacting the company&#8217;s competitive edge against rivals like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX in AI advancements.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns have been raised among DeepMind employees and executives about the company\u2019s lack of a clear solution for commercial AI coding tools, which has bolstered the momentum of competitors Anthropic and OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>Jumper\u2019s departure also follows the exit of fellow Google DeepMind researcher Noam Shazeer who joined competing firm OpenAI, accentuating the rivalry among major technology firms in the AI sector.<\/li>\n<li>Google DeepMind and Anthropic both confirmed Jumper&#8217;s shift, with DeepMind expressing gratitude for his contributions and Anthropic welcoming him on board.<\/li>\n<li>Jumper contributed to the development of the AI model AlphaFold with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, which earned them the Nobel Prize and revolutionized AI&#8217;s application in science and medicine.<\/li>\n<li>The broader AI talent war involves major tech firms like Meta and Alphabet, along with startups such as Anthropic and OpenAI, competing aggressively to secure elite researchers for next-gen AI systems.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts suggest that smaller companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have an advantage due to less bureaucracy and a focused effort on achieving superintelligent AI over larger corporations with more bureaucratic constraints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859496 Publish Date: 2026-06-21 12:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/06\/22\/P09-260622-312.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234538,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234536\/revisions\/234538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}