Google purchased DeepMind in 2014 for an estimated $400 million to $650 million to expand its AI capabilities. DeepMind made headlines for creating systems that could beat the world's best Go , chess and shogi players. It soon started making advancements in protein folding and crystalline structure discovery.

Much of the recent AI hype train has centered around mesmerizing digital content generated from simple prompts, alongside concerns about its ability to decimate the workforce and make malicious propaganda much more convincing.

Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its "AlphaFold" artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target disease more effectively. In 2020, the company made a significant advance in molecular biology by using AI to successfully predict the behaviour of microscopic proteins.