Comment by flopsamjetsam
1 day ago
> I'm guessing Google can't make money on them.
The weights are free for non-commercial use. And Isomorphic are their commercial arm, and they partner with the big drug companies.
Edit: after reading the article, I realise it's about the disbanding of the team, so probably your original comment is correct.
> The weights are free for non-commercial use.
Nope. Alphafold 1 & 2 can be used for whatever you want. Also this has resulted in them being used to train better models than Alphafold 3.
> And Isomorphic are their commercial arm, and they partner with the big drug companies.
Yep. And given how Pharma works, being the "descendants" of Nobel-prize winning research I'm sad to say this will probably work and pay pretty well (not by Google standards, but by anyone else's standard, pretty well), despite the fact that there are better models.