# AlphaFold

Type: Technology

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## Timeline

- **2026-06**: Researcher Exits Hit Alphabet — John Jumper leaves Alphabet for Anthropic, and Noam Shazeer departs for OpenAI, prompting a sell-off in Alphabet shares.
- **2024-10-09**: Nobel Prize Awarded to Jumper — John Jumper receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold, revolutionizing protein structure prediction.
- **2017-06-12**: Transformer Architecture Published — Noam Shazeer co-authors 'Attention Is All You Need,' laying the foundation for modern large language models.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### 2 AI Pioneers Exit Alphabet: How Jumper & Shazeer's Move Reshapes AI Research
2026-06-26 04:04:33 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

The departures of Nobel Prize-winning John Jumper and transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Alphabet could slow Gemini's progress, but Alphabet's vast AI ecosystem ensures its long-term competitiveness. The moves highlight the fluid talent dynamics at the frontier of AI.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/alphabet-ai-researcher-exits-impact

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