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DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 code, with weights for non-commercial researchers only

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Source: Google DeepMind (GitHub)Also reported by Google (The Keyword), 11 Nov 2024 update

Six months after publishing AlphaFold 3, Google DeepMind released its inference code on GitHub on 11 November 2024 and opened applications for the model weights. The weights terms limit use to non-commercial organisations such as universities, non-profits, research institutes and government bodies, and bar commercial use, sharing outside the organisation and using outputs to train similar structure-prediction models.

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University and government labs could run AlphaFold 3 on their own hardware for non-commercial work, while the terms shut out commercial users and training other models on its outputs.

When
11 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0032
Who
Google DeepMind

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Google DeepMind (GitHub) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Google DeepMind (GitHub)

Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Earlier in this Storyline: What led hereGoogle DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs release AlphaFold 3 for molecular interactions

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WTA-N-2024-0032: “DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 code, with weights for non-commercial researchers only.” wheresthe.ai, 11 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/deepmind-alphafold-3-code-weights-2024-11/ (source: Google DeepMind (GitHub)).

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