#protein-folding

AI Research

Big Pharma's Sneaky Bet on Open-Source Protein Folders to Escape Google's Clutches

Big Pharma's sudden love for open-source protein-folding AI? It's not charity—it's a calculated move to break free from Google's walled garden. But who pockets the real gains?

AI Research

PLAID Hijacks Protein Folders' Latents to Spit Out New Sequences and Structures

Everyone figured AlphaFold's Nobel meant peak prediction era. PLAID says no—it's repurposing those models to crank out novel proteins, trained on sequence troves 1,000x larger than structures.