John M. Jumper is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction
From 2025-2026, Jumper serves as director at Google DeepMind. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. The AlphaFold team had released 214 million protein structures as of January 2024.
John Jumper left Google DeepMind to join Anthropic June 2026. This is right before Anthropic is expected to IPO.It’s very possible he’s converting his influence to earnings by joining profit driven Anthropic right before IPO.
