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Google, Meta to invest $300 million in \'virtual cells\' for AI disease research

Google DeepMind, Meta and AI drug discovery company Isomorphic Labs will invest a combined $300 million in a large AI biology project to study disease. The funding will support Biohub’s Virtual Biology initiative, which aims to build large biological datasets and develop virtual cell models to predict how cells respond to disease, drugs and other interventions. The effort will also draw on funding, data and computing and measurement technologies totalling $1.8 billion.

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Google Alphafold team effectively dismantled, staff reassigned to Gemini

Google DeepMind has effectively dismantled the team behind Alphafold, the Financial Times reported on July 29. The report said Google reassigned core Alphafold staff and most original paper authors to other units, with some already leaving the company. DeepMind began Alphafold in 2018 and was credited in 2020 with effectively solving the protein-folding problem. In 2024, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel chemistry prize for the research.