Anthropic hires Nobel laureate John Jumper and UC Berkeley CS chair Jelani Nelson
Anthropic has hired John Jumper, the Nobel laureate in Chemistry and creator of AlphaFold, from Google DeepMind, along with UC Berkeley CS division chair Jelani Nelson. These hires continue Anthropic's aggressive talent acquisition from top AI labs and academia.
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