SMRTR Science & EngineeringJul 29, 2026Daily.dev

DeepMind dismantles its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team

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DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, reassigning most members across other projects and losing key talent — including Nobel co-winner John Jumper — to rival Anthropic. The lab is shifting from focused, single-problem teams toward building Gemini-powered AI systems designed to broadly automate scientific research.

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