John Jumper
John Michael Jumper is an American chemist and computer scientist who served as a director and distinguished scientist at Google DeepMind. He is best known for leading the development of AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts three-dimensional protein structures from amino acid sequences with high accuracy. In June 2026, he announced his departure from DeepMind to join Anthropic.
“Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner John Jumper went to Anthropic.”
Source→“Nobel laureate John Jumper, AlphaFold AI co-creator, exits Google DeepMind for Anthropic… Top AI researchers are flocking to nimble firms like Anthropic, many preparing for IPOs.”
“DeepMind director John Jumper's departure for Anthropic.”
“John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning Google DeepMind researcher best known for AlphaFold, was leaving for Anthropic... sent Alphabet's shares tumbling as much as 7%.”
“After the market learned that John Jumper... was leaving for Anthropic... after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, it sent Alphabet's shares tumbling as much as 7%.”
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