The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/nobel-winner-john-jumper-to-leave-google-deepmind-for-anthropic"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260619/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260619/p20#a260619p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/nobel-winner-john-jumper-to-leave-google-deepmind-for-anthropic">The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.</p>