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Posted by artninja1988 5 days ago

John Jumper to join Anthropic(twitter.com)
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hackerbeat 5 days ago|
Super Mario leaves Nintendo to focus on plumbing.
Iolaum 5 days ago||
Two big names left GDM recently. Could be a coincidence, but where's the fun in that? :p
overfeed 4 days ago||
That's meaningless without knowing many big names remain, and how much "big names" influence future outcomes. Google seems to have a knack for making names big
coderatlarge 5 days ago||
you mean shazeer?
david_shi 5 days ago||
Nominative determinism.
WarmWash 5 days ago||
Shazeer yesterday and Jumper today....Demis is there something we need to know about?
make3 5 days ago|
Shazeer is mostly an IC, weirdly enough (source: I worked with him).

Demis is the CEO of DeepMind, it's completely different.

Jumper.. the AlphaFold team left & made Isomorphic. I was always surprised that Jumper hadn't gone with them.

bmitc 5 days ago||
Who cares?
brcmthrowaway 5 days ago|
Why do people care when LeBron moves? Answer: people follow movements when earning tens of millions is involved.
bmitc 5 days ago||
This guy earns tens of millions of dollars?
brcmthrowaway 4 days ago||
As a Nobel winner, yes.
bmitc 4 days ago||
Huh.
brcmthrowaway 5 days ago||
I would just join a lab for 4 years and retire at this point.
jatins 5 days ago|
You think these people don't already have generational wealth?
brcmthrowaway 5 days ago||
Before they joined the lab?
geodel 4 days ago||
Well, tons of top people left Google when Facebook was up and coming. Its nothing new. Google can't really do much for people who've made up their mind.

But yeah conspiracy theoretical approach would generate lot of discussion on this rather normal thing happening.

vld_chk 5 days ago||
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
swyx 5 days ago||
why so dramatic? why cant it just be a quietly competent lab, why must it be a dramatic collapse?
greenavocado 5 days ago|||
> why must it be a dramatic collapse?

Extreme investor desire for return on capital investment, and quickly

fhe 5 days ago|||
because, as Musk once said, always bet on the more interesting outcome (because we live in a simulation)
kh9000 5 days ago|||
And yet they can’t build a TUI that scrolls without flickering or uses a reasonable amount of memory
shard972 5 days ago||
[dead]
glimshe 5 days ago|||
Google at its peak, as well as Microsoft, had similarly strong teams.
uejfiweun 5 days ago|||
I'm starting to get the sense that Anthropic is the company that will fulfill the prophecy laid out in AI 2027.
frays 5 days ago||
Apart from Karpathy and now Shazeer and Jumper, who are the other top ICs in their team?
gordonhart 5 days ago|||
Shazeer is joining OpenAI, adjust your fantasy frontier team draft picks accordingly
crypto420 5 days ago|||
Carlini
isodev 4 days ago|
LinkedIn is right there for “career updates”.

Nobody really knows or cares about Mr Jumper there. Congrats on his new role in converting humanity’s achievements into slop.

dewitt 4 days ago|
> Nobody really knows or cares about Mr Jumper

There's no place in polite company for comments like this, and you could be trolling. But since you also simply might not know:

John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for his contributions to AlphaFold and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Among the more influential scientists of our time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Jumper

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