John Jumper, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced on Friday that he is moving to Anthropic after spending "nearly 9 years" at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper explained that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis "took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and the entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science."

Jumper (pictured above right, alongside Hassabis) added, "GDM is a special place, and I’ll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next."

According to Bloomberg, Jumper was a key figure on Google’s team developing coding tools, a product the company has struggled to market to businesses. Additionally, Character AI co-founder Noam Shazeer announced this week that he is also leaving DeepMind—though in Shazeer’s case, he is joining OpenAI. Jumper and Hassabis received the 2024 Nobel Prize for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model capable of predicting the 3D structure of proteins from their genetic sequences.