Two former Google DeepMind researchers who worked on the company’s Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein structure prediction AI as well as its AlphaEvolve code generation system have launched a new company, with the mission of democratizing access to advanced algorithms.

The company, which is called Hiverge , emerged from stealth today with $5 million in seed funding, led by Flying Fish Ventures with participation from Ahren Innovation Capital and Alpha Intelligence Capital. Legendary coder and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is also an investor in the startup.

The company has built a platform it calls “Hive” that uses AI to generate and test novel algorithms to run vital business processes—everything from product recommendations to delivery routing— automatically optimizing

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