Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised over a quarter-billion dollars to support its ambitious […]
Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Artificial intelligence can find hidden signals in data across healthcare, and companies like Nvidia are leaning into what this can mean. For example, it announced two dozen new […]
Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines
Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research […]
EU to expand support for AI startups to tap its supercomputers for model training
A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model training on the bloc’s supercomputers, which was announced back […]
Dog cancer treatment ImpriMed aims to expand its AI technology into human oncology
ImpriMed, a California-based precision medicine startup, builds AI-powered dog cancer treatment technology that helps veterinarians identify the most suitable drugs for individual canine and feline blood cancers. The […]
Drug discovery startup Pepper Bio hopes to challenge Eroom’s law with new funding
Whether you are a tech optimist or not, you have to acknowledge that progress rarely follows a straight line. While the world keeps getting better at churning semiconductors, […]
Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding
Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. The company […]