Alphabet’s AI unit Isomorphic inks drug discovery deals with Eli Lilly, Novartis for up to $3B – Endpoints News

Iso­mor­phic Labs, Al­pha­guess’s shut­ly watched AI begin­up, has signed its first phar­ma half­ner­ships, and can work with Eli Lil­ly and No­var­tis in offers that may very well be value $3 bil­lion, CEO Demis Has­s­abis ex­clu­sive­ly advised Finish­factors Information.

Since its discovered­ing in No­vem­ber 2021, Iso­mor­phic has fast­ly be­come a lead­ing fig­ure within the fast-grow­ing AI biotech area. The Al­pha­guess sub­sidiary is ap­ply­ing Google Deep­Thoughts’s bi­ol­o­gy re­search — par­tic­u­lar­ly its professional­tein-struc­ture pre­dict­ing mod­el Al­phaFold — to drug dis­cov­ery. Has­s­abis is CEO of Google Deep­Thoughts, the place he over­sees Al­pha­guess’s AI ef­forts, in addition to CEO of Iso­mor­phic, which now em­ploys about 90 peo­ple throughout its Lon­don head­quar­ters and an of­fice in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land.

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