The Thinking Game (2025)

Directed by

Greg Kohs

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

15

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Demis Hassabis and the Google DeepMind team as they work on the protein folding problem using the AI system AlphaFold. It shows their scientific efforts and pursuit of artificial general intelligence.

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What happens

The Thinking Game is a 2024 documentary film directed by Greg Kohs. It follows Demis Hassabis and the Google DeepMind team as they solve the "grand challenge" of biology—the protein folding problem—using the AI system AlphaFold, while pursuing the broader goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The film documents the scientific work that ultimately led to Hassabis and John Jumper being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. Following a limited theatrical run, the film was released for free on YouTube in late 2025, where it became a viral phenomenon, amassing over 200 million views in four weeks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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