DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper scoop Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have scooped the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AlphaFold work.
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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have scooped the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AlphaFold work.
It has been a big week for Nobel Prizes in the world of artificial intelligence. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners for 2024, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Director John Jumper sharing one-half of the prize, with David Baker — who is head of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington — securing the other half.
The news comes a day after AI pioneers Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work in machine learning and AI.
Hassabis and Jumper won the award, specifically, for “protein structure prediction,” while Baker’s was for “computational protein design.”
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