Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team

Google DeepMind

The Financial Times reported on July 29 that Google DeepMind dissolved the dedicated team behind AlphaFold, its Nobel Prize-winning protein-structure prediction system, reassigning most of the original paper's authors to Gemini and other science-AI projects over the past year. Nobel laureate John Jumper left in June for Anthropic along with two AlphaFold colleagues, and roughly a quarter of the original AlphaFold authors have exited the company entirely, though DeepMind says the AlphaFold Server, database, and AlphaFold 3 remain available and the technology itself is not being discontinued.