{"id":247425,"date":"2026-06-20T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:39:57","slug":"nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnJumperSci\/status\/2068001285173834106\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomberg reports that Jumper was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-19\/nobel-winner-john-jumper-to-leave-google-deepmind-for-anthropic?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/18\/openai-is-bringing-on-some-big-guns-in-the-lead-up-to-its-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he\u2019s leaving DeepMind<\/a> \u2014 though in Shazeer\u2019s case, he\u2019s joining OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/09\/deepminds-demis-hassabis-and-john-jumper-scoop-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-alphafold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/20\/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis \u201ctook a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}