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Meta disbands protein-folding team in shift towards commercial AI
- antiviral 3y agoExcerpt: >"Meta has axed a team that used artificial intelligence to create the first database of more than 600mn protein structures, in a signal the company is abandoning purely scientific projects in favour of building moneymaking AI products. The social media giant had employed a group of about a dozen scientists on a project called ESMFold, which trained a large language model capable of processing vast amounts of biological data to predict protein structures. The effort has been lauded by those involved in the development of new drugs and treatments." That's really unfortunate- this might have been useful research for humanity, but not apparently a priority anymore. I hope they at least open source whatever they did. Here is the Github page for ESMFold: https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm
- dekhn 3y agoit wasn't very good and wasn'tt useful. it was "fast" but "not accurate" compared to AlphaFold, which is "slow" but "accurate". It had the advantage of being trained only on structures, or only sequences, I can't remember which. But the news when it came out was wildly negative.
- archo 3y agohttps://archive.is/3zoKT https://archive.is/3zoKT