Google DeepMind Scientists Share Nobel for AI Protein Work (2)

Two Google DeepMind scientists shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry with a US professor for their breakthrough research into proteins.

Half of the 11 million-krona ($1.1 million) award will be split by DeepMind chief executive officer, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper, a senior research scientist at the company, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said in a statement Wednesday.

Hassabis and Jumper “developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures,” from their amino acid sequences, the academy said. The remainder will go to David ...