Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project as It Focuses on Gemini
DeepMind is folding AlphaFold into Gemini systems as most original authors move to other projects and nearly a quarter leave the company.
- Google DeepMind has disbanded the team behind AlphaFold, reassigning most original authors over the past year, according to the Financial Times.
- AlphaFold cracked the 50-year protein-folding problem, winning a 2024 Nobel Prize and now underpinning drug discovery and disease research worldwide.
- John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize with DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, left for Anthropic in June; core researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel followed.
- The lab is now building Gemini-powered systems meant to assist scientists and automate research, moving away from its traditional 'grand challenge' strategy.
- One DeepMind employee told the Financial Times that departures sparked internal surprise, though DeepMind says it remains 'incredibly proud' of the work.
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DeepMind Changes Its Vision for Research. Google has terminated the team behind AlphaFold, the Nobel Prize-winning AI. Leading specialists will now work on Gemini and biomedical projects, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing the Financial Times. A Revolution Solving a 50-Year-Old Mystery AlphaFold's development began in 2018. By 2020, the system was recognized as a solution to the fundamental scientific problem of protein folding, which biologists h…
“A ‘DeepSeek Moment’ has arrived for Bio AI as well.” ByteDance, the Chinese company that created the social media platform TikTok, is causing a stir in the new drug development market by unveiling ‘Protenix,’ an AI model for predicting protein structures. This follows the ‘AI-based’ initiative launched by AlphaFold, an AI research lab under Google DeepMind.
DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team
Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quarter of them have left the company altogether. DeepMind confirmed the moves, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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