John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize "for protein structure prediction", says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic (John Jumper/@johnjumpersci)

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AlphaFold co-lead John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, a notable senior talent move between frontier AI labs.

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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260619/p16#a260619p16" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> John Jumper / <a href="https://x.com/johnjumpersci">@johnjumpersci</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://x.com/johnjumpersci/status/2068001285173834106">John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize &ldquo;for protein structure prediction&rdquo;, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; 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</p>