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April 29, 2026
DeepMind Opens Seoul Campus for Korean Scientists
Published: April 29, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Updated: April 29, 2026 at 12:19 AM
100-word summary
DeepMind is opening an AI Campus in Seoul to give Korean researchers direct access to models like AlphaFold and AlphaGenome. The facility connects Seoul National University, KAIST, and three government bio hubs to tools that predict protein structures, design algorithms, and model climate scenarios. More than 85,000 Korean researchers already use AlphaFold; the campus aims to scale that adoption across energy and life sciences. The partnership includes an "AI co-scientist" system that helps researchers brainstorm hypotheses and verify results. Korea is betting that pairing its national AI infrastructure with a private lab's frontier models will produce breakthroughs faster than either could alone.
What happened
DeepMind is opening an AI Campus in Seoul to give Korean researchers direct access to models like AlphaFold and AlphaGenome. The facility connects Seoul National University, KAIST, and three government bio hubs to tools that predict protein structures, design algorithms, and model climate scenarios. More than 85,000 Korean researchers already use AlphaFold; the campus aims to scale that adoption across energy and life sciences. The partnership includes an "AI co-scientist" system that helps researchers brainstorm hypotheses and verify results.
Why it matters
Korea is betting that pairing its national AI infrastructure with a private lab's frontier models will produce breakthroughs faster than either could alone.