Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic After Nine Years
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John Jumper, the DeepMind VP and AlphaFold co-creator who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced June 19–20 he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. The hire aligns with Anthropic's expanding push into life sciences and computational biology, and lands while the company is locked in its export-control legal battle with the U.S. government. Confirmed across Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and CNBC.