The Scientist Who Used AI to Solve Protein Folding

Demis Hassabis built a career around the belief that intelligence could be understood and recreated through computation. A chess and programming prodigy, he studied computer science at Cambridge, designed successful video games and completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL. He co-founded DeepMind in 2010, leading breakthroughs from AlphaGo to AlphaFold2. This documentary follows his path from games to biology and the work that earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. an enduring intellec

AlphaFold transformed structural biology by predicting the three-dimensional shapes of proteins, a challenge that had resisted scientists for decades. Hassabis's journey shows how ideas from games, neuroscience and machine learning can combine into tools that accelerate medicine and basic science. His broader ambition is even larger: building artificial general intelligence capable of solving major scientific problems. This documentary connects AI's competitive triumphs with its growing power to reshape discovery.