{"id":715181,"date":"2026-06-20T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715181\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:32:13","slug":"nobel-laureate-jumper-departs-deepmind-joins-rival-ai-firm-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715181\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Laureate Jumper Departs DeepMind, Joins Rival AI Firm Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0944820D:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Google DeepMind<\/a> Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1892140D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Anthropic PBC.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Jumper has been a key member of Google\u2019s AI coding development team and his departure furthers strains the tech giant\u2019s efforts to beat Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SPCX:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a> in the race to build the most powerful AI models. Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-18\/google-s-own-ai-researchers-jockey-for-access-to-its-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">has struggled<\/a> to sell AI coding tools to businesses, according to former employees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13564,15959,181,28,130945,28227,9135,308341,31277,79,308342,74],"class_list":["post-715181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-executives","tag-john-jumper","tag-nobel-prize","tag-science","tag-space-exploration-techn-cl-a","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}