Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic

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Jul 29, 2026

The majority of the researchers behind AlphaFold are now working on other projects, and almost a quarter have left Google Deepmind altogether. The restructuring marks a sharp turn away from the strategy that put the lab on the map.

Google Deepmind has broken up the team behind AlphaFold, the Financial Times reports. Most of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers were reassigned internally over the past year.

Deepmind confirmed the moves. The researchers are now working on projects built around Google's Gemini large language model, as well as enzyme design, nuclear fusion, and genomics. Others transferred to Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet subsidiary focused on drug discovery that was spun out of Deepmind in 2021 and has partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly. Nearly a quarter of the full-time Google Deepmind authors of the original AlphaFold papers have left the company entirely, according to the FT.