Google suddenly finds itself with two Nobel laureates on its staff. On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Demis Hassabis and John Jumper are recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

DeepMind researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, alongside University of Washington professor David Baker, have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their significant contributions to understanding the structure of proteins,

Google DeepMind scientist Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI model that predicts protein structures.

DeepMind researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The pair were recognized for their work on protein structure prediction. In 2020, DeepMind developed an AI tool to predict protein structures called AlphaFold2.

The Nobel Prize announcements this week heavily featured the use of AI, which has ignited discussion over traditional sciences.View on euronews

The chemistry prize shows the power of collective research, freely shared. Now some worry data access will be restricted as commercialization grows.