Julian Schrittwieser

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Member of Technical Staff, reasoning research2024 – present
2. 
   Google DeepMind

   • Core scientist for about ten yearsto 2024

Education

• B.Sc., software engineering, Vienna University of Technology, 2013

Lesser-known facts

• Got into programming as a teenager by writing games.
• Said Claude was the first LLM he used consistently, and called Anthropic the company he most trusts to build AGI safely.
• Joined Google in 2013 while still a student at TU Wien, after a summer internship following his first year.
• Was one of three developers who programmed AlphaGo.
• Wrote the viral 2025 essay "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again," comparing AI bubble talk to the early weeks of Covid-19.
• Holds Google readability in six programming languages; about half his past code is C++.
• Wrote his own static site generator in Rust for his blog.

Known for

• AlphaGo (2016)
• AlphaGo Zero & AlphaZero (2017)
• MuZero (2019/2020)
• AlphaCode, AlphaTensor, AlphaProof
• Gemini