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Isomorphic Labs is an Alphabet-owned, DeepMind-spun-out company using AI models to design new drugs and accelerate pharmaceutical discovery.
DOE will invest more than $500 million and Biohub $500 million over five years in open cell data for AI models, under a pact with NIH. Biohub puts the whole effort at $1.8 billion, a total that counts NIH-coordinated datasets built with earlier federal money.
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Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs is in funding talks at a $40 billion valuation. Crypto Briefing put its prior mark near $17.5 billion, so the ask more than doubles the price of a drug designer that has yet to dose a patient.
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Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs put $300 million into Biohub's $1.8 billion Virtual Biology Initiative and get the data before the public does. Startups that sell proprietary cell data will now be priced against a free dataset that their best-funded rivals see first.
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The $20mn round buys roughly 0.53 per cent of the company, and no product exists yet. Read the number as a reference price for pre-revenue bio-AI, not a verdict on the science.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Academics get all 9 billion single-base predictions through a browser at no cost, while commercial users wait on a Google Cloud licence whose terms DeepMind has not published, including for its own sister company.
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The work is careful basic genetics: cloned sequences, predicted protein folds, and one gene switched off at a time. Whether it touches India's 56% edible oil import share depends on breeding that has not happened yet.
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Only people can be inventors under US law, so the file on an AI-derived molecule has to show human contribution. Teams that do not document it are building patents someone can challenge.
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The startup opened a robotic "human data center" near San Francisco on the thesis that AI drug discovery is limited by causal human experiments, not model capacity.
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The startup opened what it calls the world's largest human data center last week. Its diagnosis of the field is testable; most of the evidence for its own machines is self-reported.
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Management says scale is starting to show up as operating leverage. The release as supplied gives a backlog, power figures and more than $14bn of fresh capital, but no margin numbers.
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