Andreessen Horowitz August 9, 2024
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z Bio + Health General Partner Vijay Pande walks us through the past two decades of applying software engineering to the life sciences — from the Folding@Home project that he launched, through AlphaFold and more. He also discusses the major opportunities for AI to transform medicine and health care, as well as some pitfalls that founders in that space need to watch out for.
Here’s an excerpt of Vijay discussing how AlphaFold and other projects revolutionized biology research not just because of their algorithms, but because of how they introduced software engineering into the field:
“I think the key thing about AlphaFold that really got people excited was not just the...
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