TLDR · SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
WHEN GOOGLE LOCKED THE DOOR, THREE MIT STUDENTS PICKED THE LOCK
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DeepMind shipped AlphaFold 3 last spring, but its code was locked, weights were restricted, and commercial applications were forbidden. By December, three MIT PhD students had reverse-engineered the architecture and released their own version. Boltz is available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 for anyone to download. The Boltz team now has $28 million in funding and a Pfizer partnership, showing how the industry is willing to reject Google's closed approach and instead build around it.