John Jumper, a Google DeepMind vice president who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for work on AlphaFold, said June 19 that he will leave Google DeepMind after nearly nine years and join Anthropic after taking time to recharge. Google DeepMind and Anthropic confirmed the move; Google DeepMind said it was grateful for Jumper’s contributions to science and AI. Jumper has been a key member of Google’s AI coding development team as Google competes with Ant...

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