Google DeepMind has officially dismantled its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold AI team as part of a major internal strategy shift to prioritize the development of the Gemini model.
Key researchers behind the protein-folding AI have reportedly left the company to join Anthropic, signaling a significant talent drain following the restructuring.
The move has sparked debate within the AI community, as the AlphaFold project was widely considered one of the most successful applications of AI in scientific research to date.