AlphaFold
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AlphaFold is DeepMind's AI system that predicts protein three-dimensional structures from amino acid sequences, earning the 2024 Nobel Prize and enabling prediction of over 200 million protein structures used by 3M+ researchers globally.
Announcing our partnership with the Republic of Korea
Google DeepMind establishes an AI Campus in Seoul with South Korea to apply AlphaFold and scientific AI models to drug discovery, energy, and climate research.
The Honest Climate Case for AI
AI's climate viability hinges entirely on grid decarbonization outpacing demand: reasoning models will consume 10-100x more power, but if fossil fuels power ~50% of new data centers through 2030, AI becomes a net decarbonization drag.
ML promises to be profoundly weird
Modern LLMs are fundamentally unreliable systems prone to confabulation and hallucination—incapable of learning or true reasoning—yet their risks remain underestimated as they scale into critical applications.
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact