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Google DeepMind’s new AI can model DNA, RNA, and ‘all life’s molecules’
AlphaFold 3 will also be available to researchers through a server.
“With AlphaFold 2, it was a big milestone moment in structural biology and has unlocked all kinds of amazing research,” DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told reporters in a briefing. Hassabis says the server is available for academic, non-commercial uses, but Isomorphic Labs is working with pharmaceutical partners to use AlphaFold models for drug discovery programs. Google says in a paper that some biosecurity experts believe AI models could “may lower the barrier for threat actors and enable them, in concert with other technologies, to design and engineer pathogens and toxins that are more transmissible or harmful.”
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