Prologue: The Paradoxical Vow In the winter of 2015, a unique and hopeful gathering took place in the heart of the technology world. Against the backdrop of a burgeoning AI renaissance, a collective of visionaries—among them Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman—came together not to
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Prologue: The Intelligence Engine For decades, Microsoft was a titan of the software industry, a "software factory" renowned for producing finished applications and platforms like Windows and Office.1 The company’s products were the tools people used to get work done, but the core identity was one
A Paradigm Shift for Biology 200M+ Predicted Protein Structures Released by AlphaFold DeepMind's AlphaFold achieved what was considered a grand challenge in biology for 50 years. By making its database of protein structures freely available, it has accelerated research globally, impacting everything from drug discovery to environmental sustainability.
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