Google DeepMindを離れたのは、ジョン・ジャンパー氏。
タンパク質の立体構造(アミノ酸が折りたたまれる形)をAIで予測する「AlphaFold(アルファフォールド)」の開発を率いた人物です。
2024年のノーベル化学賞を共同受賞しており、科学の世界でも名の知れた研究者です。
約9年間在籍したGoogleを去り、Anthropicへ移ることを自身のXで明らかにしました。
A bit of news: 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 GDM. @demishassabis took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing…
Alphabet just lost 6% in a day. Not because of earnings. Because one person quit.
John Jumper, the DeepMind scientist who co-built AlphaFold and won a Nobel Prize for it, is leaving for Anthropic. And the same week, the co-lead of Google's Gemini models left for OpenAI.
I just talked with someone from Google DeepMind tonight
they said that all the ppl who recently left (e.g. Noam Shazeer) were working on some super-hard-to-land stuff by themselves, and since they were working alone anyway, their departure does not affect Google DM that much… https://t.co/wEwLbeu7sO