AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
Sandro Iannaccone
created: Dec. 24, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: Jan. 9, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
Then it started playing something more serious, aiming its deep learning algorithms at one of the most difficult problems in modern science: protein folding.
To understand what the next five years holds for AlphaFold, WIRED spoke with Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research at DeepMind and architect of its AI for Science division.
WIRED: Dr. Kohli, the arrival of AlphaFold 2 five years ago has been called "the iPhone moment" for biology.
Pushmeet Kohli: Science has been central to our mission from day one.
How has this philosophy evolved from AlphaFold 2 to AlphaFold 3, specifically now that you are using diffusion models which are inherently more “imaginative” and prone to hallucination?
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