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Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google

Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub

Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google

TL;DRAlphaFold solved structure prediction but left harder biological questions unsolved.

Why it matters: AI scaling alone won't crack biology—researchers need fundamentally new approaches to real-world problems.

From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.

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