The Latest Breaking News from AlphaFold

Google’s DeepMind is having an identity crisis

Hassabis has ceded day-to-day control to DeepMind’s CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu. Here’s what happened.

Fortune · Aug 13

Behind the exit of DeepMind’s CEO: low morale, a talent exodus, and model delays

Within DeepMind, current and former employees say tensions have been simmering for months.

Fortune · Aug 10

Five years after its debut, Google DeepMind's AlphaFold shows why science is AI's killer app

In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug discovery remains unclear.

Fortune · Nov 28, 2025

Google’s DeepMind AI cracks 3D structure of nearly all proteins known to science in major breakthrough

‘Determining 3D structure of a protein used to take many months or years, it now takes seconds’

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward

Success of AlphaFold program could have huge impact on global problems such as famine and disease

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2022

An AI learns how to do chemistry

Artificial intelligence is making strides in protein folding, one of the most complicated processes in biochemistry

Salon · Jun 20, 2022

A celebrated AI has learned a new trick: How to do chemistry

Artificial intelligence has changed the way science is done by allowing researchers to analyze the massive amounts of data modern scientific instruments generate. It can find a needle in a million haystacks of information and, using deep learning, it can learn from the data itself. AI is accelerating advances in…

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022