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• @demishassabis Demis Hassabis on x

  Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

• @woke8yearold Aleph on x

  Google is getting crushed. I have no idea what they are doing Alternative reading: it's over and no one is catching Anthropic and OpenAI, all top talent will defect to them

• @theo @theo on x

  Gemini's current position reminds me of Llama's position early last year

• @nc_frey Nathan C. Frey on x

  excited to welcome @JohnJumperSci to @AnthropicAI ! John's work on AlphaFold opened the door for me and many other recovering physicists to contribute to this field. we need many more “AlphaFold moments” in AI x Bio and I'm stoked to have John on board

• @ai_for_success AshutoshShrivastava on x

  🚨 John Jumper, Nobel Prize winner is leaving Google DeepMind after 9 years to join Anthropic. Yesterday it was Noam Shazeer joining OpenAI. Today it's John Jumper joining Anthropic. What's happening 👀

• @bonegpt Bone on x

  nominative determinism strikes again

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  “Sir... John Jumper... the director of DeepMind... the co-creator of AlphaFold... the man who won the Nobel Prize with you... sir... he just announced he's leaving Google DeepMind and joining Anthropic...” [image]

• @natebjones Nate on x

  Noam to OpenAI and now John headed to Anthropic It's a two horse race at the frontier. Google is effectively out.

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  John Jumper is a Nobel laureate who won the 2024 Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis. Now he's leaving Google DeepMind too, right after Noam Shazeer. What is going on at Google DeepMind? I had really high hopes for Gemini.

• @antonpme Anton P. on x

  🤯 That's a bit concerning... Google is losing big AI specialists: Noam Shazeer → OpenAI John Jumper → Anthropic Given that we still haven't seen the promised Gemini 3.5 Pro, things aren't looking particularly bright for the Google empire.

• @zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x

  Anthropic is beefing up its Biology/Chemistry AI team

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  What the fu*k!! John Jumper, one of the key figures behind AlphaFold and co-winner of the Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. Huge loss for, and an insane win for Anthropic! What is happening, especially at google?

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Another huge hire by Anthropic. He won the Nobel with Sir Demis for developing AlphaFold. Talent continues to concentrate at OpenAI and Anthropic.

• @chrissgpt Chris on x

  Anthropic gets John, Nobel prize winner with Sir Demis for creating AlphaFold. And OpenAI gets Noam, creator of the transformer architecture. I love how this timeline feels like a movie 🍿

• @pushmeet Pushmeet Kohli on x

  @JohnJumperSci , you have been a fantastic colleague. I am deeply grateful for all your invaluable contributions to the @GoogleDeepMind Science program. From the mission-focused execution on AlphaFold to the amazing Nobel ceremony- you leave us with a lot of memories. We wish

• @lexnlin Leon Lin on x

  Crazy Another goat left DeepMind to join Anthropic I wonder why 🤔

• @basedjensen @basedjensen on x

  Another big name leaves google

• @8teapi Prakash on x

  Anthropic gets a Nobel prize winner. wow

• @kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x

  folks getting pulled out of lumbering Google is its own kind of acceleration

• @zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x

  Thomas Kurian should have allocated compute to GDM rather than selling it to Anthropic and others

• @stalkermustang Igor Kotenkov on x

  If the departure of John and Noam is somehow related to the quality of the soon-to-be-released G 3.5 Pro, well, this really means that there are only 2 players left. xAI is far behind (even with Cursor under the belt), Meta is, well, doing data annotation. Anthropic has the

• @quanquangu Quanquan Gu on x

  After solving protein structure prediction, the next frontier is designing therapeutics. Foundation models has transformed language. They will transform biology next. AI for drug discovery is no longer just a niche application, it's becoming a frontier AI problem.

• @haider1 Haider on x

  what exactly is going on at google DeepMind? in the span of two days: - noam shazeer (transformer co-author) leaves google for openai - john jumper (nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead) leaves DeepMind for anthropic i think google isn't fully aligned on what to focus on [image]

• @swyx @swyx on x

  Anthropic is going to IPO at $2T

• @davidiach David Iach on x

  Fascinating just how fast talent gets absorbed by the two super labs. John was awarded the Nobel Prize for AlphaFold.

• @ruoshuiresearch Ruo Shui on bluesky

  frontier model wise, it's a duopoly with Anthropic in pole position [embedded post]

• @ai-nerd @ai-nerd on bluesky

  jumper shared the nobel with demis hassabis for alphafold ... and now half of that prize-winning duo is leaving hassabis's own lab for anthropic.  that's two weeks after noam shazeer walked out for openai [embedded post]

• r/claude r on reddit

  Anthropic's Dario is on a mission—assembling a Team of AI Avengers.

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Nobel Winner John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

• r/technology r on reddit

  Nobel Winner John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic