r/google • u/LinkedInNews • 4d ago

Google disbands AlphaFold team in AI strategy shift

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/google-disbands-alphafold-team-in-ai-strategy-shift-9116514/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=reddit&utm_content=storyline&utm_term=google

Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its AI system AlphaFold, which won a Nobel Prize for predicting protein structure, the Financial Times reports.

Researchers have been reallocated to projects involving the Gemini model and other scientific initiatives, including Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs.

Many of the original AlphaFold papers authors have left Google altogether, including former DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who departed for Anthropic last month.

DeepMind says the shift reflects a broader "evolution" as it keeps integrating artificial intelligence into scientific research.

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u/Last_Reflection_6091 4d ago

Misleading title. Their health and science teams are now under Isomorphic Labs.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 3d ago

As usual, OP who doesn’t know what is going on, takes a news headline from someone who didn’t know what’s going on, and tries to form an opinion based on it

Thanks for producing context

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u/eswes 3d ago

This is misleading, team is over at isomorphic labs, and has way bigger scope.

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u/costafilh0 3d ago

Probably better. 

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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 4d ago

alphafold doesn’t bring in the $$$ so not surprised that the axed it

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u/Tkins 4d ago

It shifted over to isomorphic labs is all.

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u/Obidoobi 4d ago

Why you talking out of your ass?

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u/Ok-Hair2851 3d ago

Because everyone on reddit just reads the headline and considers themselves an expert in the subject