India, Oct. 9 -- Most of us have often wondered about leaving a job we have had for years. Now a Nobel Prize-winning scientist has announced he is doing just that. CNBC reported on June 19 that AI scientist John Jumper announced on X that he is joining AI startup Anthropic. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Google's Demis Hassabis for co-creating AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures. Hassabis responded to the post with praise. This is the latest high-profile exit from the AI research unit of the Big Tech giant, CNBC says. The decision comes amid competition for top AI talent.

Jumper worked at Google DeepMind as a senior research scientist, and his departure from the company was considered surprising by ...