New Delhi, June 20 -- John Jumper, the Vice President at Google DeepMind who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with chief executive Demis Hassabis for building AlphaFold, announced on Friday that he is leaving the company to join Anthropic after nine years, becoming the third senior DeepMind researcher to depart in as many months and revealing that his final stretch at Google had been spent on AI coding tools rather than the scientific work that won him a Nobel.

John Jumper confirmed the move in a post on X, framing it as the end of a long chapter rather than a clean break. "After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at...