AlphaFold Laureate John Jumper Joins Anthropic
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John Jumper, Nobel Prize co-winner for AlphaFold with Demis Hassabis, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic in a move that underscores the ongoing talent shift toward AI startups. Jumper led AlphaFold, the protein-folding AI that now provides hundreds of millions of predicted structures and has accelerated biomedical research; Hassabis praised the lasting legacy of his work. Jumper says he’s taking time to recharge and has not yet disclosed his exact role at Anthropic amid a broader wave of top researchers moving to AI firms ahead of IPOs.
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