Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning researcher known for work tied to AlphaFold, is leaving Google to join Anthropic, multiple outlets report. Bloomberg and other sources describe Jumper as having spent nearly nine years at DeepMind and note that he won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions related to AI-based protein structure prediction. Google DeepMind confirms the departure, with a spokesperson telling Reuters that it is grateful for Jumper’s contributions and wishes him well.
Several reports say Jumper announced the move on social media, stating he plans to take some time before starting at Anthropic. The coverage also places the decision in the context of other leadership and talent moves involving Google’s AI efforts. Times of India and the New York Post, among others, refer to the earlier departure of Noam Shazeer, described as a key researcher and co-lead of Google’s Gemini models, who has moved to OpenAI. Across the articles, the main reported developments are Jumper’s transfer to Anthropic and the recent pattern of senior AI personnel leaving Google’s AI organizations.
