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		nl on Dec 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding OpenAI was founded in Dec 2015. They have a smaller budget than Pfizer and work on less practical problems. It's a lack of vision and leadership from pharma labs.

tachyonbeam on Dec 5, 2020 [–]

> It's a lack of vision and leadership from pharma labs.

That's probably true, but I don't think Pfizer could have beat DeepMind, even if they had really tried. DeepMind is in a unique position to recruit lots of young deep learning researchers.

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