John Jumper
Anthropic (joined from Google DeepMind, 2026) · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Led AlphaFold 2 and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; left Google DeepMind for Anthropic in June 2026.
Role changes
- 2026-06-19 Announced he was leaving Google DeepMind after nearly 9 years to join Anthropic source
News mentioning John Jumper (4)
- Demis Hassabis steps aside as Google DeepMind CEO; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over, Jeff Dean leaves ★★★★
In early August 2026 Demis Hassabis handed day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu (as SVP reporting to Sundar Pichai), becoming DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Pichai's memo also announced Jeff Dean's departure to found…
- FT: Google DeepMind has broken up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team; Jumper, Adler and Pritzel now at Anthropic ★★★
The Financial Times reported on 29 July 2026 that Google DeepMind had quietly dissolved the dedicated AlphaFold team, reassigning most of the original AlphaFold authors to Gemini and other projects. Nobel laureate John Jumper had announced on 19 June 2026 that he was leaving for Anthropic, and…
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFold ★★★★★
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
- AlphaFold 2 solves protein structure prediction at CASP14 ★★★★★
AlphaFold 2 achieved a median GDT score of 92.4 at CASP14, accuracy competitive with experimental methods, widely seen as solving the 50-year-old protein folding problem for single chains.
Posts (1)
- John Jumper: leaving Google DeepMind after nearly 9 years to join Anthropic original ↗ John Jumper @JohnJumperSci · x · 2026-06-19
AlphaFold's Nobel-winning lead announces his move to Anthropic, the start of the AlphaFold team's breakup.
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