Source: Understanding AI
by Kai Williams
“Protein-folding models are the success story in AI for science. In the late 2010s, researchers from Google DeepMind used machine learning to predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins. AlphaFold 2, announced in 2020, was so good that its creators shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry with an outside academic. Yet many academics have had mixed feelings about DeepMind’s advances.” (01/28/26)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-unlikely-ally-for-open-source