How Video Games Shaped the Genius Behind DeepMind's Founder

Sir Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and Dr. John Jumper, Director at Google DeepMind, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Their achievement? AlphaFold — a revolutionary AI that cracked one of biology’s greatest mysteries: predicting the 3D structure of proteins from just their amino acid sequences.

And they weren’t alone. David Baker also took home the prize for his pioneering work in computational protein design.

But why does the protein folding problem matter so much?

Why was solving it considered Nobel-worthy?

And what role did AI play in this breakthrough?

Please watch the video to know more.