Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
News AI Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini It has already reassigned some members of the DeepMind project, while others have already left the company. By Mariella Moon July 29, 2026 6:40 am EST Google The award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more, according to Financial Times. Google has reassigned most of the team's key members and the original authors of its papers, while a few others have already left the company.
- ▪News AI Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini It has already reassigned some members of the DeepMind project, while others have already left the company.
- ▪By Mariella Moon July 29, 2026 6:40 am EST Google The award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more, according to Financial Times.
- ▪Google has reassigned most of the team's key members and the original authors of its papers, while a few others have already left the company.
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News AI Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini It has already reassigned some members of the DeepMind project, while others have already left the company. By Mariella Moon July 29, 2026 6:40 am EST Google The award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more, according to Financial Times. Google has reassigned most of the team's key members and the original authors of its papers, while a few others have already left the company. AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years.
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