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Google DeepMind has grand ambitions to 'cure all diseases' with AI. Now, it's gearing up for its first human trials


“One day we hope to be able to say — well, here’s a disease, and then click a button and out pops the design for a drug to address that disease.”

Born from DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, the company is pairing cutting-edge AI with pharma veterans to design medicines faster, cheaper, and more accurately. “There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, London, working, and collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer,” Murdoch saidduring an interview in Paris. These leaps made it far more useful for drug discovery, helping researchers design medicines faster and more precisely, turning the tool into a launchpad for a much larger ambition.

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