Making the rounds in technology news today is a story that you want to make certain you don’t miss.
When Alphabet, parent company of Google, acquired DeepMind in 2014 - a company employing nearly a thousand people yet without much in the way of revenue - they thought the type of game-breaking AI advances that would move the world forward were as much as a decade away.
DeepMind has routinely stayed in public sight as their AI has successfully competed in a wide variety of games, from chess to Go to Space Invaders.
Today, the company announced a significant step forward for how AI is applied to modern science, demonstrating that their technology has solved the “grand challenge” of protein folding.
If you’re inclined, this is a great piece about what protein folding is and what this development likely heralds for scientists in terms of progress.
But the main takeaways today are that AI continues to evolve for the better, and that it’s Google and Alphabet celebrating a nice win tonight.
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