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DeepMind solves protein folding | AlphaFold 2

Lex Fridman

In 2020, amidst significant global challenges, DeepMind announced a major breakthrough with AlphaFold 2, claiming to solve the fifty-year-old grand challenge of protein folding. The system achieved prediction performance comparable to much slower and expensive experimental methods like X-ray crystal …