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Google DeepMind has broken up the team behind AlphaFold, reassigning most of the original AlphaFold paper's authors over the past year, with nearly a quarter having left the company, according to a Financial Times report DeepMind confirmed. Research VP Pushmeet Kohli said the lab's nine-year strategy of dedicated teams tackling "grand challenges" has evolved toward Gemini-powered systems intended to assist scientists and automate parts of research. Former staff moved to Gemini projects, enzyme design, nuclear fusion, genomics, or the Alphabet drug-discovery spinout Isomorphic Labs. John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis, left for Anthropic in June, followed by core researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel; Anthropic recently launched Claude Science.

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