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A breakthrough unfolds. Google DeepMind: The Podcast featuring Demis Hassabis

January 25, 2022
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In this episode of Google DeepMind: The Podcast, Hannah Fry uncovers the inside story of AlphaFold from our CEO Demis Hassabis and finds out how it could help transform the future of healthcare and medicine.

In December 2019, DeepMind’s AI system, AlphaFold, solved a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, known as the protein-folding problem. A headline in the journal Nature read, “It will change everything” and the President of the UK's Royal Society called it a “stunning advance [that arrived] decades before many in the field would have predicted”.

This breakthrough AI model inspired the founding of Isomorphic Labs to apply cutting-edge AI to reimagine the entire drug discovery process.