Google Deepmind's Brain Drain Continues: Nobel Laureate John Jumper Defects to Anthropic
In a significant blow to Google Deepmind, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper has left the company to join Anthropic, marking the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the AI research organization. This move comes as Google prepares to launch its Gemini 3.5 Pro model, which insiders claim may not be competitive with rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that, AlphaGo researcher David Silver started his own company. Three of Google's most prominent AI minds, gone within months. The article Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder.