Google DeepMind

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1. Story
2. The research organisation founded in London in 2010, acquired by Google in 2014, and merged with Google Brain in 2023, which produced a disproportionate share of the results this Journey examines: AlphaGo, AlphaFold, GNoME and GenCast. Its record is the reason the Journey can be structured as a comparison rather than as a verdict. AlphaFold was tested blind by an experiment it did not run and is now used by millions of researchers; GenCast was published with an evaluation against an operational forecasting centre's own ensemble, and that centre subsequently put a comparable system into service; GNoME was announced with a headline count of discoveries and challenged within five months by specialists who examined a sample of them. Same organisation, same method family, three very different evidential outcomes — which is a stronger argument than any general statement about whether laboratories over-claim.
3. Knowledge
4. London
5. Google DeepMind
6. Connections
7. AlphaFold
8. GNoME and the materials-discovery claim
9. London
10. AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol in Seoul
11. AlphaFold2 is assessed blind at CASP14
12. GNoME is announced as 2.2 million new crystal structures
13. GenCast is published with a like-for-like comparison against an operational ensemble
14. Tea
15. Afternoon tea
16. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
17. Boston Tea Party
18. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
19. First Assam tea auctioned in London
20. London Marathon
21. New York City
22. White City Stadium
23. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
24. The first London Marathon
25. The Great Exhibition
26. Google DeepMind
27. Evidence
28. AlphaFold2 predicts protein structure from sequence at accuracy competitive with experimental determination for most targets, as assessed blind at CASP14 in 2020, where predictions are reported to have achieved a median domain GDT_TS of 92.4 including on free-modelling targets. V55 verification basis: the paper was NOT fetched — nature.com is blocked to this session — but search results carried the title, journal, volume 596 and pages 583–589 and attributed them to this paper, and carried the CASP14 accuracy characterisation. The 92.4 median GDT_TS figure is attributed in retrieved summaries to the CASP14 assessment literature rather than to this paper, and a curator should confirm which document reports it before it is quoted as the paper's own statistic.
29. Graph Networks for Materials Exploration produced 2.2 million predicted new crystal structures, of which about 380,000 were predicted stable, presented publicly as equivalent to roughly 800 years of accumulated knowledge. V55 verification basis: neither the paper nor the announcement was fetched. The 2.2 million and roughly 380,000 figures, the "800 years" framing and the Nature publication in 2023 were carried in search results attributing them to the paper and to DeepMind's announcement; the Nature volume, article number and page range were NOT retrieved and are deliberately omitted, as is the full author list.
30. ECMWF's Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System became operational on 25 February 2025, outperforming the physics-based system on many measures including tropical cyclone tracks with gains of up to 20%; GenCast, published in Nature in December 2024, is reported to have beaten the ECMWF ensemble on 97.2% of 1,320 evaluation targets and to produce a fifteen-day global forecast in about eight minutes on a single accelerator. V55 verification basis: neither ecmwf.int nor nature.com was fetched. The operational date and the up-to-20% figure were carried in search results attributing them to ECMWF's own news item; the 97.2%, 1,320-target and eight-minute figures were carried with attribution to the Nature paper and to reporting of it.
31. AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol four games to one in a five-game match played in Seoul between 9 and 15 March 2016, Lee winning the fourth game. V55 verification basis: search results carried the dates, the venue and the 4–1 result with attribution to contemporary reporting and to DeepMind's own announcement of the match. The underlying Nature paper on AlphaGo was NOT retrieved and is deliberately not cited here; the widely repeated 280-million-viewer figure is likewise not asserted, having reached this record only through secondary commentary.