Is it broken if it yields new drugs? Is there a system that yields more? The whole point of capitalism is that it incentivizes this in a way that no other system does.
My point one level up in the comments here, was not really that the system is broken, but more like asking how you can run these companies (google and that other part run by the deepmind founder, who I bet already has more money than he can ever spend) and still sleep well knowing you're the rich capitalist a-hole commercializing life-science work that your parent company has allocated maybe one part in a million of their R&D budget into creating.
It's not like Google is ever going to make billions on this anyway, the alphafold algorithms are not super advanced and you don't require the datasets of gpt4 to train them so others will hopefully catch up.. though I'm also pretty sure it requires GPU-hours beyond what a typical non-profit academia outfit has available unfortunately.. :/
