{"id":488057,"date":"2026-06-21T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488057\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:26:11","slug":"nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488057\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he\u2019s making the leap to Anthropic after \u201cnearly 9 years\u201d at Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis \u201ctook a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jumper (pictured above right, with Hassabis) added, \u201cGDM is a special place, and I\u2019ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg reports that Jumper was a key member of Google\u2019s team developing coding tools<\/a>, which the company has struggled to sell to businesses. Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer also announced this week that he\u2019s leaving DeepMind<\/a> \u2014 though in Shazeer\u2019s case, he\u2019s joining OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jumper and Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in 2024<\/a> for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that can predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their genetic sequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he\u2019s making the leap to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6166,363,364,367,244734,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-488057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-google","tag-john-jumper","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}