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AlphaFold's success was largely a data-acquisition story: ~180,000 protein structures gathered over decades at a cost of several billion dollars; the AI was the final fitting step.

Who
Michael Nielsen
Topic
AlphaFold
Verification note
PDB structure count is accurate; the multi-billion total is a plausible order-of-magnitude; the framing is contested by those who see the AI as transformative.