Wang: Biological Foundation Models Will Drive Rapid Pharmaceutical Breakthroughs
Alexandr Wang · Evaluating AI threats & opportunities (ScaleAI's Alexandr Wang & Intel’s Lama Nachman) · Jul 23, 2024 · at 52:56
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang discusses high-impact AI application areas on stage at the Intel Vision event.
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“Progress in pharmaceuticals in particular is an area where I think we'll see very rapid progress. You know, I I've spent a lot of time there just personally, because it's an area that I find very interesting. There's been incredible advancements in biological foundation models which look like, you know, whether it's at the DNA or RNA level or at the protein level, look like they're going to enable huge amounts of innovation, you know, lots of extensions of the sort of alpha fold technologies that exist in the past.”
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