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

L5 · ResearcherResearchLatent Space· 10/10/2026

Critical analysis of AI's current limitations in biology for researchers pushing the boundaries of computational biology.

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Google DeepMind and Biohub researchers explain why AlphaFold was just the beginning and discuss the limitations of scaling approaches for solving complex biological problems.

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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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