Morning Edition · Friday, July 31, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Google DeepMind Disbands the Original AlphaFold Team and Folds Science Into Gemini
Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic in June, and roughly a quarter of the original paper's core authors have departed as DeepMind reorganizes around Gemini.
Google DeepMind has disbanded the dedicated team behind AlphaFold, the protein-structure system that earned its leads a share of a Nobel Prize. Members are being reassigned to Gemini-related work and to scientific projects at Isomorphic Lab…
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General Models Absorb Specialist AI Teams
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