John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind AlphaFold, said he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years, to join AI startup Anthropic. This looks to be one of the bigger talent moves in AI this year, especially with the whole competition thing between Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic going full speed. Jumper is mostly famous for steering the development of AlphaFold , an AI system that cracked that long standing, decades-old problem of foretelling protein shapes.That breakthrough changed how biological research gets done and it sped up drug discovery worldwide .

Jumper trabalhou por quase nove anos na empresa e liderou modelo de IA que prevê estrutura de proteínas

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that,…