Demis Hassabis picked John Jumper to lead AlphaFold. That bet won them a Nobel Prize together. Now Jumper's leaving DeepMind for Anthropic. Hassabis built his name on AGI that heals, not harms. So what's shifting inside that promise? Where is AI really taking us?
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SignalFire 2025 State of Talent Report: https://t.co/6gXZWUI7Ud
"The Adolescence of Technology": https://t.co/XqSRrH99T8
WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 press release: https://t.co/F9CgGKOQ8k
Fortune's coverage of the OECD Economic Outlook: https://t.co/87f1qBi42Q
Everyone flexes their “coding skills,” but in the AI era that’s like bragging you can ride a horse when cars exist.
Math trains the models.
Physics explains the machines.
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