Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

# DeepMind's Star Scientist Heads to Competing AI Company Google's DeepMind is losing John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning researcher, to Anthropic, a rival AI startup backed by former OpenAI employees. Jumper became famous for developing an AI system that solved one of biology's biggest puzzles—predicting how proteins fold—work that earned him a Nobel Prize. His departure signals that top talent in artificial intelligence is increasingly willing to leave big tech companies for smaller, independent AI labs that may offer more freedom or better alignment with their values.