I work at Open Force Field [1] which is the kind of nonprofit that I think you're talking about. Our sister project, OpenFold [2], is working on open source versions of AlphaFold.
We're making good progress but it's difficult to interface with fundamentally different organizational models between academia and industry. I'm hoping that this model will become normalized in the future. But it takes serious leaps of faith from all involved (professors, industry leaders, grant agencies, and - if I can flatter myself - early career scientists) to leave the "safe route" in their organizations and try something like this.
We're making good progress but it's difficult to interface with fundamentally different organizational models between academia and industry. I'm hoping that this model will become normalized in the future. But it takes serious leaps of faith from all involved (professors, industry leaders, grant agencies, and - if I can flatter myself - early career scientists) to leave the "safe route" in their organizations and try something like this.
[1] https://openforcefield.org/ [2] https://openfold.io/