#protein folding

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Big Pharma's Cynical Bet on Open Protein AI to Escape Google's Grip

Big Pharma hates relying on Google as much as academics do. They're pouring cash into open protein-folding AI—but don't call it altruism.

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PLAID Hijacks AlphaFold's Brain to Invent New Proteins

AlphaFold nailed prediction. PLAID? It designs. By sneaking into folding models' latent spaces, this new system spits out novel proteins on command, trained on sequence oceans no structure database can match.