July 30, 2026

DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.

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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 qua...