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DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team
The team that built AlphaFold, which won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize, has been taken apart. Most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors were reassigned over the past year. Nearly a quarter of them have left the company, with a few moving to Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet drug-discovery spinout, and the stars going to Anthropic. The reorganization marks a turn away from the deep-science bets that made DeepMind's name toward the Gemini-powered AI scientist race.
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