Why Google DeepMind broke up the AlphaFold team
The artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind have already been carrying its work forward
DeepMind dissolved the AlphaFold team after eight years of work, achieving significant milestones in predicting protein structures. However, researchers outside the company have continued the work and the program's data remains accessible. The team's breakup is seen as a natural outcome of DeepMind's strategy to demonstrate success in a specific benchmark, rather than a failure to achieve broader goals.
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