While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This week marks the five-year anniversary of the debut of Alpha Fold 2, ...

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of nature, and five years on it has rewired how laboratories plan experiments, ...

When John Jumper got the call earlier this month from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that he was winning the Nobel Prize, he almost didn’t answer. The director of Google DeepMind, the tech ...

ChatGPT has made generative AI accessible to a wide audience, expanding its applications from text generation to images, sounds and videos. Generative AI’s predictive capabilities are advancing ...

The AI tool AlphaFold has been improved so that it can now predict the shape of very large and complex protein structures. Researchers have also succeeded in integrating experimental data into the ...

The artificial intelligence–based structure-prediction software AlphaFold, originally developed by Google DeepMind, has quickly become an important tool for drug discovery. Its original iteration ...

Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a senior researcher at the company, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts ...