Nobel-Winning AI Researcher Leaves Google for Anthropic
By Elias Schisgall
John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning artificial-intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind, is leaving the company for Anthropic.
Jumper served as a director, and later, a vice president of Google DeepMind, the company's AI lab, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was part of a team, along with DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2024 for their work using AI to predict the structure of proteins.
"After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge)," Jumper wrote in a Friday post on X. "GDM is a special place, and I'll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next." His hiring was confirmed Monday by Anthropic.
The departure is a blow for Google, which last week lost another prized AI researcher, Noam Shazeer, to OpenAI. Google had rehired Shazeer in 2024 with a roughly $2.7 billion check, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Shares in Google parent Alphabet slid 5.9% to $345.71 as of midday Monday.
Write to Elias Schisgall at elias.schisgall@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 22, 2026 12:51 ET (16:51 GMT)
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