Deepmind dissolves AlphaFold team, loses authors to Anthropic

google deepmind has dissolved its alphafold team, reassigning the majority of researchers to projects focused on gemini, enzyme design, and nuclear fusion, while nearly a quarter of original authors have left the company. co-author john jumper and fellow researchers jonas adler and alexander pritzel are departing for anthropic to build ai science tools, leaving deepmind just after its founders won the nobel prize in chemistry. this restructuring marks the end of deepmind's strategy of organizing research around specific 'grand challenges' like protein folding. the lab is now pivoting to build gemini-powered systems that automate scientific processes, competing directly with openai and anthropic in the race for frontier ai agents.