Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

John Jumper, who recently shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on Friday that he will move into the field of anthropology after “nearly 9 years” at Google DeepMind.

in Share on XDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance on letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after I earned my PhD, and the entire GDM team has taught me a lot about how to do great science,” Jumper wrote.

Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added: “GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about the cool things they discover next.”

Bloomberg reported that Jumper was Key member of Google’s programming tools development teamwhich the company struggled to sell to businesses. Noam Shazier, co-founder of Character AI, also announced this week He’s leaving DeepMind – Although in Shazier’s case, he’s joining OpenAI.

Gamper and Hassabis win the 2024 Nobel Prize For their work on AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their gene sequences.