21 comments

  • leopoldj 14 minutes ago

    Videos. [2] is for the scientists to start using AlphaGenome Atlas from AntiGravity.

    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aToL5C-bQ

    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qw3rDNX0Q

  • jFmDRz73 14 minutes ago

    This Google blog post is a distilled version of a Deep Mind blog post:

    https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-...

    They are only announcing a cache. The origin for the cache is not discussed.

    In particular, the question of whether to trust the predictions is not addressed. For that, I think the citation is from January:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0

  • asxndu 25 minutes ago

    I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.

      sssilver 20 minutes ago

      Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.

        mdp2021 6 minutes ago

        It's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.

      dgellow 14 minutes ago

      No AI company is doing that. There is some benefits but that’s not what any AI for profit will ever focus upon

        heaney-555 3 minutes ago

        DeepMind objectively is doing that. The world is not so black and white as "evil profit-hungry corporations will never do anything good".

  • orliesaurus 13 minutes ago

    the Google DeepMind PR team can't catch a break, shame it makes no sense to me - if someone's in the field maybe they could explain to the rest of us if this is a big deal, just a PR move, or nah?

      dgellow 10 minutes ago

      Just wait a few months, if it is a big deal that will likely be obvious by then

        orliesaurus 6 minutes ago

        i like this way of thinking ;)

  • mertcikla an hour ago

    not my field so I can't judge how useful it is but assuming this data can be used for drug discovery and their ToS limiting to non-commercial use only. Does DeepMind plan on selling this data to pharmaceutical companies?

      abirch 29 minutes ago

      Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...

      dekhn 36 minutes ago

      Individual SNP predictions are not useful for drug discovery. Pharma might license this, but mainly out of fear of missing out.

      falcor84 an hour ago

      My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs

      bpodgursky 25 minutes ago

      It's a bigger deal for diagnostics than for drug development.

      PunchTornado an hour ago

      Hopefully. Tired, as a shareholder, to see the giveaways that deepmind is doing.

        boston_clone 24 minutes ago

        Astroturfing, eh? This is verbatim the same comment as another user in this thread. Strange...

          incognito124 18 minutes ago

          PunchTornado was first, fr2029 was second

            fr2029 8 minutes ago

            i made no such comment. reported for harassment.

  • parasxos an hour ago

    An atlas of the human genome from the company whose other atlas still routes me into a lake.

  • WarmWash 16 minutes ago

    Google doing work to uncover the pandoras box of genetics? How long before they shove this under the rug...