According to a July 29 report from the UK's Financial Times, Google DeepMind has dissolved its AlphaFold team, renowned for its groundbreaking protein structure prediction technology that earned a Nobel Prize nod. Over the past year, the majority of the original paper's authors have transitioned to new roles within the company. Notably, some team members, including Nobel laureate John Jumper, have joined AI startup Anthropic. This move reflects DeepMind's strategic pivot, redirecting resources toward cutting-edge fields such as the Gemini large language model, enzyme design, and nuclear fusion research.
