[Isinlor]

AlphaFold may bring millions if not billions to DeepMind, Google and Alphabet. Figuring out structure of a single protein may cost up to 100 000 dollars.

Bert as applied to search from late 2019: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/sea...

[Rochus]

Time will show; winning the competition was just the first step.

[Isinlor]

Indeed, that is why I'm saying "it may", but people are crazy if they expect that basic research will make billions of profits a year after.

It normally takes some 10 to 20 years for basic research to produce profits.

mRNA vaccines are technology from 1990 and are first time used commercially on mass scale on humans 30 years later.