DeepMind, the AI unit of Google that invented the chess champ neural network AlphaZero a few years back, shocked the world again in November with a program that had solved a decades-old problem of how ...

At the heart of every biological process, from the replication of cells to the functioning of the human brain, lies the intricate world of proteins. Understanding the structure of these molecules, ...

The AI tool AlphaFold has been improved so that it can now predict the shape of very large and complex protein structures. Researchers have also succeeded in integrating experimental data into the ...

AlphaFold 3, unveiled to the world on May 9, is the latest version of an algorithm designed to predict the structures of proteins—vital molecules used by all life—from the "instruction code" in their ...

In the rapidly evolving world of science and medicine, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly pivotal role. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 stands at the forefront of this AI revolution ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...

In November 2020, Alphabet-owned AI firm DeepMind announced that it had cracked one of biology’s trickiest problems. For years the company had been working on an AI called AlphaFold that could predict ...

Broad economist skepticism about predictions of a looming artificial intelligence “jobpocalypse” isn’t the Pollyanna principle in action. Inconvenient evidence for artificial-intelligence worriers ...