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AlphaFold unlocks one of the greatest puzzles in biology

Piecing together one of the largest molecular structures in human cells

Science

Accelerating the race against antibiotic resistance

Unlocking a decade of data in minutes to help beat antibiotic resistance

Science

AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

Today, in partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the...

Science

Putting the power of AlphaFold into the world’s hands

When we announced AlphaFold 2 last December, it was hailed as a solution to the 50-year old protein folding problem. Last week, we published the scientific paper and source code explaining how we...

Research

Perceiver AR: general-purpose, long-context autoregressive generation

We develop Perceiver AR, an autoregressive, modality-agnostic architecture which uses cross-attention to map long-range inputs to a small number of latents while also maintaining end-to-end causal...

Research

DeepMind’s latest research at ICML 2022

Starting this weekend, the thirty-ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022) is meeting from 17-23 July, 2022 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland, USA, and will be...

Research

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

Despite significant effort, current AI systems pale in their understanding of intuitive physics, in comparison to even very young children. In the present work, we address this AI problem,...

Research

Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

In our recent paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, we provide a proof-of-concept demonstration that deep reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to find economic policies that people will...

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BYOL-Explore: Exploration with Bootstrapped Prediction

We present BYOL-Explore, a conceptually simple yet general approach for curiosity-driven exploration in visually-complex environments. BYOL-Explore learns a world representation, the world...

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Unlocking High-Accuracy Differentially Private Image Classification through Scale

According to empirical evidence from prior works, utility degradation in DP-SGD becomes more severe on larger neural network models – including the ones regularly used to achieve the best...

Company

Bridging DeepMind research with Alphabet products

Today we caught up with Gemma Jennings, a product manager on the Applied team, who led a session on vision language models at the AI Summit, one of the world’s largest AI events for business.

Research

Evaluating Multimodal Interactive Agents

In this paper, we assess the merits of these existing evaluation metrics and present a novel approach to evaluation called the Standardised Test Suite (STS). The STS uses behavioural scenarios...