Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project As It Focuses On Gemini

Google DeepMind has split up the original AlphaFold team, moving key researchers to Gemini-related work and Isomorphic Labs.

Some AlphaFold researchers have also left for Anthropic, while Google shifts more attention to its flagship general-purpose AI.

The change signals a stronger bet on Gemini over protein-structure AI, despite AlphaFold’s major impact on science and drug discovery.

The move could slow or redirect future work on protein folding, even though AlphaFold helped win a Nobel Prize.