Google DeepMind has dissolved the dedicated AlphaFold team, its artificial intelligence program for predicting protein structure, after eight years and more than 200 million predictions. The team’s breakup follows a Nobel Prize for two of its creators, who shared half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Financial Times reported last week that DeepMind had dissolved the team. Some members left the company; AlphaFold2 co-creator John Jumper announced in June that he was leaving for Anthropic. Other researchers were reassigned to other projects within Google or moved to Isomorphic Labs. A DeepMind spokesperson tells Scientific American that many of those moves happened more than a year ago. The program’s public database and prediction server remain available. Scientists are not alarmed because, by the benchmark the company chose, the project largely accomplished its mission: AlphaFold achieved remarkable accuracy at predicting a protein’s likely three-dimensional structure. Additionally, researchers outside DeepMind have already reproduced and extended much of AlphaFold’s work, so the team’s breakup may have less effect on the field than it might at first seem.