Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
Tech giants including Meta and Alphabet, along with upstarts such as Anthropic and OpenAI, are locked in a talent war as they race to build next-gen AI systems.
John Jumper, a key member of the team at Google DeepMind for nearly a decade, is decamping for Anthropic.
John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a day after Shazeer left for OpenAI.