# Nobel Laureate John Jumper Joins Anthropic from DeepMind

> John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's breakthrough in predicting protein structures, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. His move is tied to Anthropic's growing AI-for-science effort, which recently expanded to include wet labs and research on AI agents that can run biological workflows, alongside partnerships with the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His specific role has not yet been disclosed. The significance is partly symbolic and partly strategic. Jumper is arguably the most decorated scientist to come out of the modern AI wave, and AlphaFold remains the clearest example of AI producing a genuine scientific advance rather than a chatbot demo. His departure also fits a broader DeepMind exodus, with researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel reportedly heading to Anthropic as well. For Anthropic, landing a Nobel laureate is a statement that it intends to compete not just on coding and chat but on using models to accelerate real discovery, an area where the payoff is slower but potentially far larger.

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## Wortins' read

John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's breakthrough in predicting protein structures, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. His move is tied to Anthropic's growing AI-for-science effort, which recently expanded to include wet labs and research on AI agents that can run biological workflows, alongside partnerships with the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His specific role has not yet been disclosed. The significance is partly symbolic and partly strategic. Jumper is arguably the most decorated scientist to come out of the modern AI wave, and AlphaFold remains the clearest example of AI producing a genuine scientific advance rather than a chatbot demo. His departure also fits a broader DeepMind exodus, with researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel reportedly heading to Anthropic as well. For Anthropic, landing a Nobel laureate is a statement that it intends to compete not just on coding and chat but on using models to accelerate real discovery, an area where the payoff is slower but potentially far larger.

## Source

[Read the full story at Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/nobel-winner-john-jumper-to-leave-google-deepmind-for-anthropic)

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