DeepMind and Biohub discuss AlphaFold's unsolved protein folding
What happened
On 10 October 2026, Latent Space published a conversation between Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido. According to the report, the two said in the discussion that AlphaFold's breakthrough is only the beginning and that the protein folding problem is far from solved. The report did not provide further details on the specific unsolved problems, technical details or future research directions.
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- Latent SpaceWhy AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
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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