Google, Meta and the US Government Bet $1.8 Billion on AI for Drug Discovery
The biggest bet on AI for drug discovery just got a lot bigger. Biohub, the nonprofit research outfit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, said Wednesday that its Virtual Biology Initiative has grown into a $1.8 billion effort, with Google DeepMind, Meta and two US federal agencies now signed on. The goal: software that predicts how a human cell reacts to a drug, a mutation or a disease before anyone runs the experiment. ...