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NOBEL WINNER moves to Anthropic.

John Jumper, who led AlphaFold and won the 2024 Nobel in Chemistry, is leaving Google DeepMind after 9 years to join Anthropic.

- He shared that Nobel with DeepMind's own CEO

- Google had him working on AI coding, not science

- He leaves right after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer went to OpenAI

- DeepMind also just lost David Silver, the mind behind AlphaGo

✨️John Jumper (JohnJumperSci on x) said:

"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. Demis Hassabis took 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. GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next."

✨️Anthropic is killing it with the 2026 hiring run:

▪️ Andrej Karpathy (joined in May) — OpenAI co-founder and ex-Tesla AI lead, who came from his own startup Eureka Labs to work on Claude pretraining.

▪️ John Jumper (announced June 19) — Google DeepMind VP and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for AlphaFold, leaving after nearly nine years.