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22 Jun 2026 Machine Learning Street Talk He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper
“We predict nature level science with the press of a button in a very narrow category of nature level science of the structure of a specific protein.”
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- 22 Jun 2026
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…I don't really love the bitter lesson as people try and apply it. In fact, AlphaFold 2 is the opposite of that. Protein folding is 1 of these holy grail type problems in biology. We predict nature level science with the press of a button in a very narrow category of nature level science of the structure of a specific protein. John Jumper led the team behind AlphaFold, the system that predicted 200,000,000 protein structures. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. And now Jumper is leaving DeepMind. But what did AlphaFold solve? What remains unsolved? And could AlphaFold be the template for AI for science?…
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