John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning creator of AlphaFold, is departing Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. His move follows Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer’s departure to OpenAI just days earlier, marking a second major talent loss for Google in a short span. Anthropic’s hiring of Jumper aligns with its expansion into life sciences and computational biology, an area recently strengthened by its acquisition of Coefficient Bio.
