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John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning co-creator of AlphaFold, said on Friday, June 19, 2026, that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude. The move is more than another trophy hire in the frontier-model talent war. It is a signal that...

John Jumper, the American computational biologist and Google DeepMind vice president who helped lead AlphaFold to a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said on June 19, 2026, that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic after a break. The move is more than a celebrity...