Fact check confirms Eric Schmidt's AlphaFold protein-folding claim
A fact-check verdict rates TRUE Eric Schmidt's claim that AI solved the 50-year protein-folding problem. DeepMind's AlphaFold achieved this in 2020, and over 3 million researchers had used it by late 2025.
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