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Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.
But you need to understand, preventing deaths doesn't make Google any money. Please think about the poor corporation!
I think this is a miscalculation on Google's part because dead people can't buy their products.
People don’t buy products anymore. They’re too poor to care about. Businesses sell to governments and other businesses now and couldn’t care less what you want or think.
businesses don’t sell products anymore, they sell subscriptions to their products.
Honestly they could’ve pointed AI at this problem to try and rack up at least some positive AI press coverage
But... Alpha fold is AI.
Actual, real, machine-learning artificial-intelligence. Not this sycophantic human mimic shit everybody's fallen head over heels for. At the very bare-minimum comparison, AlphaFold had an established use-case.