Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (opens original article in a new tab)

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for Anthropic, following his 2024 Nobel Prize win with Demis Hassabis for AlphaFold work.

• John Jumper, Nobel laureate in chemistry, is leaving DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly 9 years.
• Jumper and Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize for AlphaFold work, an AI model predicting protein structures.
• Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer also left DeepMind, joining OpenAI this week.