DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.
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Reassigning much of the AlphaFold team after a Nobel shows how quickly frontier labs rotate talent toward the next platform bet. If you’re a downstream user in biotech, don’t anchor your roadmap to any one research group—anchor it to the productization and support commitments around the tools you rely on.
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