# Julian Schrittwieser

Research and product · Reasoning research at Anthropic · joined 2024

Spent about ten years at DeepMind on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero before joining Anthropic in 2024.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/julian-schrittwieser

**At Anthropic:**
- 2024 – present: Member of Technical Staff, reasoning research
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- to 2024: Google DeepMind, Core scientist for about ten years
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Education:**
- B.Sc., software engineering, Vienna University of Technology, 2013
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Got into programming as a teenager by writing games. [1](https://globaladvisors.biz/2025/10/28/quote-julian-schrittwieser-anthropic/)
- Said Claude was the first LLM he used consistently, and called Anthropic the company he most trusts to build AGI safely. [1](https://www.julian.ac/blog/2024/10/28/joining-anthropic/)
- Joined Google in 2013 while still a student at TU Wien, after a summer internship following his first year. [1](https://www.diepresse.com/5542089/ki-software-alphazero-trainiert-sich-zum-schachmeister) [2](https://www.forbes.at/artikel/julian-schrittwieser-bei-google-deep-mind)
- Was one of three developers who programmed AlphaGo. [1](https://www.forbes.at/artikel/julian-schrittwieser-bei-google-deep-mind)
- Wrote the viral 2025 essay "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again," comparing AI bubble talk to the early weeks of Covid-19. [1](https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/) [2](https://www.julian.ac/)
- Holds Google readability in six programming languages; about half his past code is C++. [1](https://www.julian.ac/about/)
- Wrote his own static site generator in Rust for his blog. [1](https://www.julian.ac/)

**Known for:**
- AlphaGo (2016)
- AlphaGo Zero & AlphaZero (2017)
- MuZero (2019/2020)
- AlphaCode, AlphaTensor, AlphaProof
- Gemini
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people