Fortune November 5, 2020
Brett Haensel

Kimberly Powell, vice president and general manager of health care at Nvidia, believes her company, in effect, is building time machines.

Using artificial intelligence and supercomputing to drastically shorten the time doctors and researchers spend diagnosing diseases and developing antiviral drug treatments, Nvidia, which got its start as a chipmaker for video games, has played a key role in accelerating efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“We’ve really essentially built a time machine for these researchers,” Powell says. “Instead of waiting three months to screen 12 billion potential drug candidates, we did it in 12 hours on the world’s largest supercomputer.”

On this episode of Fortune Brainstorm, a podcast about how technology is changing our lives, Powell speaks...

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