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Google DeepMind has effectively disbanded the team behind AlphaFold, its protein structure prediction AI. Many researchers moved to Gemini projects or left for Anthropic, while some joined Isomorphic Labs. AlphaFold services continue, and the company says the shift reflects a strategy toward general-purpose systems for scientific research.
At Nexon's NDC26 conference, Google DeepMind Inception Director Alexandre Moufarek detailed how video games have been central to the company's AI research, from Atari and StarCraft to AlphaGo and the Gemini project. He emphasized that games provide safe, complex testbeds for training AI agents and that many DeepMind founders, including CEO Demis Hassabis, are former game developers whose iterative design experience informs current research.