AlphaFold

also referred to as: alpha fold

includes AlphaFold 3

8 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2023 by Colin Murdock · said 57 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (31), Demis Hassabis (10), Colin Murdock (5), Gary Marcus (3), Lila Ibrahim (2), Koray Kavukcuoglu (2), Yossi Matias (1), Thomas Domke (1)

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Sep 14, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Murdock: DeepMind mapped all 200M known proteins using AlphaFold
“We've used AlphaFold now to map all two hundred million proteins known to science, or two hundred million proteins known to science, and we've made that available to everyone.”
Colin Murdock Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 42:02 Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2030
Demis Hassabis predicts a virtual cell AI model will take five years
“I think that would be like maybe five years from now. Yeah. So I have a kind of five year project and a lot of the alpha fold, the old alpha fold team are working on that.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 42:44 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
May 7, 2025 positive
Opinion
Marcus: AlphaFold is a neurosymbolic model and AI's greatest achievement
“And also alpha fold is actually a neurosymbolic model, and it's probably the best thing that AI ever did.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 51:14 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
May 21, 2025
Disclosure
Hassabis: DeepMind trained AlphaFold using 300,000 to 400,000 synthetic predictions
“Where there wasn't actually enough real experimental data to build the final alpha fold, so we had to build an earlier version that then predicted about a million protein structures, and then we selected, it had a confidence level on that, we selected the top …”
Demis Hassabis May 21, 2025 ▶ 24:28 DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
Oct 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
AlphaFold's release increased the total number of researchers working on proteins
“I mean, we don't have less researchers working on proteins. We have actually have many more, right?”
Yossi Matias Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 24:22 Google Research Head Yossi Matias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hassabis: Almost every future drug discovered will probably use AlphaFold
“I think in future Almost every single drug that's discovered from now on will probably have used AlphaFold at some point in that process, which is, you know, amazing for us, and, you know, really, that's what we do, all the work we do for.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 30:58 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
Jan 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Hassabis: Three million researchers worldwide use AlphaFold
“And it's been incredibly gratifying to see, you know, three million researchers around the world use it in their important research.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 30:52 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
Feb 18, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Manyika: 3.5 Million Researchers Across 190 Countries Access AlphaFold
“You now have three and a half million researchers accessing it in over a 190 countries.”
James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 24:38 How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
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