Profit-Oriented Research and R&D Challenges in India:
Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 3, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for predicting protein structures. Unlike its previous open-source versions, AlphaFold 3’s full code was withheld, preventing scientists from fully understanding its workings or replicating its results.This decision has sparked discussions about the growing influence of for-profit funding(investors seeking profit) in scientific research, creating tensions between transparency and intellectual property protection, and highlighting challenges in India’s research and development ecosystem.
