AstheAIboomhassweptSiliconValley, NVIDIAhasbuilt a morethan $60 billion a yearbusinessandlastsummerbecameoneofthefewcompanieswith a marketcapinthetrillions.
AtDeepMind, theGoogleAIlab's AlphaFoldmodel, a groundbreakingtoolforpredictingproteinstructures, hasbeenusedbyacademicresearchersoverthepastyeartodevelop a so-calledmolecularsyringetoinjectmedicinedirectlyintocellsandtoresearchcropsthatarelessdependentonpesticides.
Beingabletopredicttheshapeof a proteinbasedonitsaminoacidsequencesisofintenseinteresttobiotechcompanies, whichcanusethoseinsightstodesigneverythingfromnewdrugstoimprovedcropstobiodegradableplastics.
TrainingAImodelsonhundredsofmillionsofdifferentproteinsequencesandtheirunderlyingstructureshelpthosemodelsuncoverpatternsinbiologywithoutnecessarilyneedingtodotheexpensivecomputationsrequiredby a truemoleculardynamicssimulation.