Demis Hassabis posted a farewell for John Jumper on X: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2068002732250640603

> Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

Gemini fumbled not on the models but on the basics.

Gemini 3.1 flash was actually an amazing model to code with and their 20 dollar AI plans had solid value, but they locked it all behind 429s, needless gatekeeping of clients and poor product differentiation even among internal offerings. Users moved on. To claude for the best product, to OpenAI for the non gatekept API access. It’s hard to bring them back.

Something spicy must have happened internally at Google. This rapid fire high level attrition isn't just down to the bureaucratic quagmire.

John Jumper Jumps to Anthropic, was right there.

Something seems afoot at Google. The real tell will be if Demis makes a move. Jeff Dean seems more like a lifer to me.

Name checks out.

Who cares?

Super Mario leaves Nintendo to focus on plumbing.

Two big names left GDM recently. Could be a coincidence, but where's the fun in that? :p

Shazeer yesterday and Jumper today....Demis is there something we need to know about?

Nominative determinism.

Anthropic legit builds one the strongest if not the strongest IC team in the history of computational technology. They are insanely stacked on talent, and either we will witness a legendary run, or a new LTCM

I am guessing this is related to Anthropic’s recent acquisition of Coefficient Bio, and their interest on essentially using AGI to discover novel drugs

Anthropic is probably approaching AGI, and everyone wants to be there for it

I would just join a lab for 4 years and retire at this point.

He will be back at Google after the Anthropic IPO.

Seems like everyone here is easily fooled by the Anthropic hype. After the IPO, Anthropic won't be like the daycare it is today.

Their main competitors are the chinese labs which are racing all their prices down close to $0.

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John Jumper what a great name sounds like a video game action hero.

Who?

The guy who invented jumping is joining a major AI lab?!?