Google discontinued development of alphafold, broke up the team, let many go and transferred the rest to general LLM development except for some that were moved to their vertically integrated own pharmaceutical research (to cash in on the whole value chain and lock everyone else out of their tools).
Mind you, that is the tool that got people a Nobel Prize.
No they did not, it’s on version 3 and they just added >50 PTMs to modelling this month.
Another version is being developed and sold to pharma on subscription on a large scale batch modelling platform.
broke up the team
The team continued on to other projects, including the commercial version mentioned above. There was no point in continuing when the development was just adding more features.
the tool that got people a Nobel Prize
2 people from Deepmind, Jumper and Hassabis, one person at U Wash , Baker, is still developing AlphaFold with Google and is a academic lab.
You partially correct my statement but weirdly enough largely confirm it, just with a PR twist. “There was no point in continuing when the development was just adding more features.” But it is not, AlphaFold 3.0 is still far from perfect. We need more than just a few more added features. But the next big step will be either some closed thing, developed by a largely changed team, sold for a fortune as subscription model to pharma multis or be done by entirely different groups that have nothing to do with Google or Deepmind.
There is a reason why Hassabis is not working on it anymore and of course he will say it was all as it should be, given how he was moved upwards.
Google discontinued development of alphafold, broke up the team, let many go and transferred the rest to general LLM development except for some that were moved to their vertically integrated own pharmaceutical research (to cash in on the whole value chain and lock everyone else out of their tools).
Mind you, that is the tool that got people a Nobel Prize.
https://thenextweb.com/news/deepmind-alphafold-team-dismantled-gemini-anthropic
Now we see the tech being used for the whimsical and capricious, but also the potentially destructive, like that hacking incident.
No they did not, it’s on version 3 and they just added >50 PTMs to modelling this month. Another version is being developed and sold to pharma on subscription on a large scale batch modelling platform.
The team continued on to other projects, including the commercial version mentioned above. There was no point in continuing when the development was just adding more features.
2 people from Deepmind, Jumper and Hassabis, one person at U Wash , Baker, is still developing AlphaFold with Google and is a academic lab.
You put a lot of faith on one vague article.
You partially correct my statement but weirdly enough largely confirm it, just with a PR twist. “There was no point in continuing when the development was just adding more features.” But it is not, AlphaFold 3.0 is still far from perfect. We need more than just a few more added features. But the next big step will be either some closed thing, developed by a largely changed team, sold for a fortune as subscription model to pharma multis or be done by entirely different groups that have nothing to do with Google or Deepmind.
There is a reason why Hassabis is not working on it anymore and of course he will say it was all as it should be, given how he was moved upwards.