Forbes August 14, 2024
The Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup list includes healthcare startups Equip, Midi Health and EvenUp.
Artificial intelligence has continued to make strides in biology, with new tools and models able to produce steady improvements at certain important research tasks. Deepmind, for example, recently released AlphaFold 3, which had much-improved accuracy in predicting the structure of proteins compared to its predecessor. Several drugs discovered using AI tools are already in the clinic, with possible first approvals coming from regulatory agencies in the next few years.
A major bottleneck for AI in the field, though, is a lack of data needed to train these models, such as the gene and protein sequences from a broad variety of species. But Serge Saxonov, cofounder and...
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