Monday, 22 June, 2026
AI Talent War: Nobel Winner John Jumper Defects from DeepMind to Anthropic
By TechShots Studio
U.S. scientist and 2024 Nobel chemistry laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind to join rival startup Anthropic after nearly nine years. Jumper, who famously co-developed the world-changing AlphaFold protein-prediction system, marks a massive loss for Google. His departure follows just 48 hours after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, signaling an intensifying industry battle for elite AI researchers.
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