Alex Pritzel

Researcher @GoogleDeepMind
Currently working on pre-training on Gemini team.
Core developer of AlphaFold

[Alex Pritzel @AlexPritzel]

Amazing work by my friends at latent labs!

[Latent Labs @Latent_Labs]

5 months from Latent-X1 to Latent-X2. AI-generated antibodies with drug-like developability and low immunogenicity in human panels — zero-shot.

Available now for selected partners.

[Latent Labs @Latent_Labs]

5 months from Latent-X1 to Latent-X2. AI-generated antibodies with drug-like developability and low immunogenicity in human panels — zero-shot.

Available now for selected partners.

[Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton]

Nice! AlphaFold3 server added interactive pAE and chain division! Including option to download MSA. (Just noticed this when doing a tutorial today!)

[Alex Pritzel @AlexPritzel]

I still fondly remember tracking down tensorflow bugs with Simon while we were building AlphaFold2, very exciting to see how far things have progressed.

Keen to see the amazing work @Latent_Labs will do!

[Simon Kohl @saakohl]

@Latent_Labs comes out of stealth today with $50M funding. Our goal? To push the frontiers of generative biology, giving partners instant access to tools capable of accelerating drug design.

Every biotech or pharma company searching for the best therapeutic molecules understands the role AI can play - but not all are in a position to develop their own advanced models. That’s where @Latent_Labs comes in.

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Honoured and proud to be at the @NobelPrize ceremony today with some of the key members of the AlphaFold team where our @GoogleDeepMind colleagues @demishassabis and John Jumper will be co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

[Alex Pritzel @AlexPritzel]

@jonkhler @NandoDF Germany just does it via long notice periods, I know plenty of people working in Germany with 6 month notice periods and I think it can legally be longer.
Ultimately the same thing; people don't get to move on to a new place for many months, just different name and terms.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry, have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.

In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic.

The illustration below explains how it works.

Read more about their story: https://t.co/xxYj7PBk1N

[Ewan Birney @ewanbirney]

So @JeremyFarrar asked for an "explainer thread" on Noble Prizes in Chemistry around AlphaFold and Protein design, so here goes.

[Alex Pritzel @AlexPritzel]

@snikolov What can I say? I'm an expert at coming up with excuses for having champagne :)

[Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews]

Watch the moment that our President Professor Sir Jim McDonald revealed our 2024 #MacRobertAward winner @GoogleDeepMind at last night's #RAEngAwards Dinner. Find out more about their award-winning GraphCast innovation: https://t.co/6R2Mdrdp5f

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re thrilled to have won the prestigious #MacRobertAward for GraphCast - our AI model delivering 10-day weather forecasts with unprecedented accuracy in under one minute via deep learning and vast data sets.

Read more about the award here → https://t.co/cYNiIG77aY

[Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews]

Congratulations to our MacRobert winners @GoogleDeepMind for their GraphCast work on AI for weather prediction.
Find out more about their award winning innovation: https://t.co/160OQx40Rm. #RAEngResearch

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Huge congrats to Pete Battaglia & our #GraphCast team who won the #MacRobertAward, the UK’s top award for engineering innovation! GraphCast provides super fast and highly accurate weather predictions up to 10 days in advance, including early warnings for extreme weather events.

[Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML]

Extremely proud of my partner in crime @FortunatoMeire and all of #GraphCast team for this award! The thing is heavy 🪙🪙🪙

[Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews]

“GraphCast is a great example of how engineering innovation can be an important driving force behind economic growth and a sustainable future.” – find out why our judges have awarded @GoogleDeepMind the 2024 #MacRobertAward: https://t.co/6R2Mdrdp5f

[Meire Fortunato @FortunatoMeire]

We did it! 📷 Beyond proud to win the #MacRobertAward, the UK's top engineering prize, for #GraphCast! Huge shout-out to my incredible team and friends, you make the hard work a joy. Thanks @RAEngNews for the recognition.

[Alex Pritzel @AlexPritzel]

We've won the MacRobert Award for our work on using AI for weather prediction!
Extremely proud to have been part of the GraphCast team, this is one of the best examples of how ML applied to science can make a difference to people's lives!
Excited to see what more is to come!

[Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews]

“GraphCast is a great example of how engineering innovation can be an important driving force behind economic growth and a sustainable future.” – find out why our judges have awarded @GoogleDeepMind the 2024 #MacRobertAward: https://t.co/6R2Mdrdp5f

[Ellen Zhong @ZhongingAlong]

I am so excited to see this out!! It was an amazing experience working with the team on new directions in the midst of the #AF2 release, and very thankful to be able to contribute. Fun fact, I called my model denoisaur 🦖🦕😂

PS Part of my decision to join @PrincetonCS was the

[Google @Google]

Introducing Gemini 1.5 Flash ⚡

It’s a lighter-weight model, optimized for tasks where low latency and cost matter most. Starting today, developers can use it with up to 1 million tokens in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. #GoogleIO

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

We love the excitement & results from the community on AlphaFold 3 and are doubling the AF Server daily job limit to 20. Happy to also share that we're working on releasing the AF3 model (incl weights) for academic use, which doesn’t depend on our research infra, within 6 months.