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Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026.
Walking into Protein Studios in Shoreditch for Sifted Summit 2026, the name brought to mind one of the defining artificial intelligence breakthroughs of the pre-ChatGPT era.
In November 2020, Google DeepMind announced that AlphaFold had achieved what the organisers of the CASP protein-structure prediction challenge described as a solution to a decades-old scientific problem. Five years after AlphaFold2 was published, its impact is difficult to dispute. The AlphaFold database now provides more than 200 million predicted protein structures, and has been used by millions of researchers around the world.
AlphaFold also shows what AI does not change – AI dramatically reduced a scientific bottleneck. It did not