DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 Goes Open Source, Boosting Drug Discovery

Google DeepMind has released the full code and model weights of AlphaFold 3, promising significant advancements in molecular biology and medicine.

AlphaFold 3, an AI tool by Google DeepMind, is now open source, allowing non-commercial academic use.
The release follows the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to its creators for breakthroughs in protein structure prediction.
AlphaFold 3 can model complex interactions between proteins, DNA, RNA, and small molecules, enhancing drug discovery and disease treatment.
Critics previously challenged DeepMind's limited access approach, prompting the open-source release to balance scientific and commercial interests.
The tool's diffusion-based architecture improves accuracy in predicting biomolecular interactions, surpassing traditional methods.