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Recent reports indicate that Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, renowned for its groundbreaking protein structure prediction technology that earned Nobel Prize accolades. Over the past year, a significant portion of the original contributors to the AlphaFold paper have transitioned to new roles within the company. Some have shifted their focus to emerging fields such as the Gemini large-scale model, enzyme design, nuclear fusion research, and genomics. Meanwhile, others have joined Isomorphic Labs, a pharmaceutical development firm under the Alphabet umbrella. Notably, nearly a quarter of the full-time Google DeepMind researchers who initially worked on the AlphaFold project have departed from the company. This strategic realignment underscores Google DeepMind's ongoing efforts to redefine and refocus its research priorities.
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