Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic

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John Jumper is a Nobel laureate who won the 2024 Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis.

Now he’s leaving Google DeepMind too, right after Noam Shazeer.

What is going on at Google DeepMind? I had really high hopes for Gemini.

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Another huge hire by Anthropic. He won the Nobel with Sir Demis for developing AlphaFold. Talent continues to concentrate at OpenAI and Anthropic.

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

What the fu*k!! John Jumper, one of the key figures behind AlphaFold and co-winner of the Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic.

Huge loss for, and an insane win for Anthropic!

What is happening, especially at google?

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Anthropic is beefing up its Biology/Chemistry AI team

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

Google is in free fall

This is the second VP of Engineering that left Google DeepMind this week

First, Noam Shazeer, Transformer and MoE pioneer

Today, nobel laureate John Jumper who basically built AlphaFold 1-3 and most recently also worked on AI coding at GDM

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Thomas Kurian should have allocated compute to GDM rather than selling it to Anthropic and others

Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

John Jumper is a Nobel laureate who won the 2024 Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis.

Now he’s leaving Google DeepMind too, right after Noam Shazeer.

What is going on at Google DeepMind? I had really high hopes for Gemini.

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Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BlackHC

It's so over 🤯😯

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Demis Hassabis@demishassabis

Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

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Susan Zhang@suchenzang

@Yuchenj_UW incredible bait. do you know what he was working on in gemini?

Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

John Jumper is a Nobel laureate who won the 2024 Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis.

Now he’s leaving Google DeepMind too, right after Noam Shazeer.

What is going on at Google DeepMind? I had really high hopes for Gemini.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Two minutes before this happened:

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Dan Roy@roydanroy

Who’s going to step up?

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Lior Alexander@LiorOnAI

Frontier AI labs are selling something Google struggles to offer: the feeling that one person can still directly change the trajectory of the company.

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Nathan Benaich@nathanbenaich

BIG

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Anotida Msiiwa@anomsiiwa

@JohnJumperSci @demishassabis first andrej karpathy and now the mind behind alphafold. anthropic is assembling the ai avengers

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Julius Adebayo@juliusadml

cross lab moves starting to feel like nba transfers. AI needs its own shams or woj.

John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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Dan Roy@roydanroy

Knowing what I know, I’m bullish. Gemini has so much headroom it’s crazy.

Dan Roy@roydanroy

Who’s going to step up?

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John Jumper@JohnJumperSci

A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next.

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