Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind, Google Loses Two AI Executives in Two Days

According to Data Beating monitoring, Google DeepMind Vice President and AlphaFold Team Leader John Jumper has announced that he will be joining Anthropic. John Jumper has been at Google DeepMind for nearly 9 years, and he is known for leading the development of AlphaFold, which, along with CEO Demis Hassabis, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Just the day before, former Gemini co-lead and co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," Noam Shazeer, also announced his departure from Google to join OpenAI as the Head of Architecture Research.