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Back to EpisodesThe Varosity AI GTM Report — Jun 20: Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic
Episode 11
Published 4 months ago
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Today on The Varosity A I G T M Report: Nobel Prize laureate John Jumper announced he is leaving Google DeepMind after nine years to join Anthropic — a massive talent signal in the frontier A I race. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain banned by US export controls on day eight, with tonight's refund deadline marking a milestone in the most dramatic government-A I intervention since the industry's modern era. Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is still not out despite a June promise, with ten days and prediction markets at 50/50. ElevenLabs Music v2 cuts A P I pricing 50 percent and adds full commercial licensing. xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 hits number one on the image-to-video leaderboard. And Workday brings M C P-powered agent governance to enterprise finance and H R.
Stories covered today:
• Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic — https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/
• Anthropic Fable 5 export ban: day 8 and tonight's refund deadline — https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
• Gemini 3.5 Pro still in limited preview — 10 days left in Google's June window — https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
• ElevenLabs Music v2 launches with 50% API price cut and commercial licensing — https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-music-v2
• xAI Grok Imagine Video 1.5 hits #1 on image-to-video leaderboard — https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes
• Workday Agent Passport brings MCP governance to enterprise — https://enterprisedna.co/resources/news/workday-devcon-agent-passport-developer-agent-2026/
Sponsored by Varosity.ai — https://varosity.ai