Tim Scarfe: prediction

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…So it's it's absolutely wonderful to be here. It's it's truly an extraordinary honor to tell you about this work, to tell you about the work of our team in protein structure prediction. So by about 10:30, I said, oh, well, I guess not this year. And I told my wife, and she goes, no. No. Wait. And as, like, as she's telling me to wait, my phone lights up with a phone call from Sweden. And thankfully, it was not the world's meanest prank call. And And all of this makes John's next move very interesting. So just a few days ago, he announced his departure at Google, and he's going to Anthropic. It's important to note that John Jumper was not building generic prediction architectures like Claude or like Gemini. It was extremely structured, designed and engineered for the purpose of doing a specific specific thing. Why might that be interesting to Anthropic? We can only guess. So this isn't just about Google DeepMind and, you know, the CASP competition and and whatnot. There are now structural biologists around the world that can innovate and build new products and save lives potentially because they have access to this protein database. I spoke with Emmanuel Ny. He is a structural biologist based in Africa. I went back and did just 1 protein purification, collected the data and we half of fold. In combination, I got the structure in less than…

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