In Brief Google DeepMind has reportedly dismantled the team behind AlphaFold, one of the most important and respected AI systems ever built. That is a major shift because AlphaFold was not just another Google research project. Google DeepMind has reportedly dismantled the team behind AlphaFold, one of the most important and respected AI systems ever built. That is a major shift because AlphaFold was not just another Google research project. But the end of the dedicated AlphaFold team shows how Google is reorganising around a broader AI strategy.