John Jumper, the AlphaFold scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthro…
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-19
Nobel Prize co-winner John Jumper, who led Google DeepMind's AlphaFold project, is departing for Anthropic after nearly nine years, part of a broader wave of senior talent leaving Google's AI division.
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Topics: talent-movementanthropicgoogle-deepmind
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- John Jumper, who shared the Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic.
- Jumper spent nearly nine years at Google DeepMind and spearheaded the AlphaFold team.
- Google also recently lost Noam Shazeer, a key contributor to the Gemini project, around the same time.
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John Jumper, the AlphaFold scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly 9 years at the lab.