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DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.

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DeepMind disbanded the original AlphaFold team less than a year after winning a Nobel Prize, reallocating members to new projects including Gemini and drug discovery. Key researchers left for rival Anthropic, signaling a shift from focused scientific challenges to broader AI research goals.

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