| AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research 🟢 |
AlphaProteo, a new AI tool by DeepMind, designs novel proteins with high binding affinity for targets like VEGF-A, enhancing drug development and biological research. Trained on extensive protein data, it often outperforms existing methods and optimized binders. Despite some limitations, efforts are ongoing to tackle more complex proteins. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 |
2024-09-09 |
| DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 🟢 |
AlphaFold 3 is an advanced AI model by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, capable of accurately predicting biomolecular structures and interactions. Providing a significant advancement over prior models, it enhances scientific research and drug development, and is available globally through the AlphaFold Server. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Model release 🎉, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍 |
2024-05-13 |
| Neuralink Safety Concerns Drove Co-Founder to Break Up With Elon Musk 🔴 |
Neuralink’s co-founder has departed to create a new venture focusing on a safer, non-invasive brain-computer interface technology using surface microelectrodes, in contrast to Neuralink’s penetrating electrodes method. |
Neuralink 🧠, AI in healthcare 🏥, AI safety 🔐 |
2024-05-13 |
| Moderna banks on OpenAI to accelerate mRNA research 🟢 |
Modern Pharma collaborates with OpenAI to incorporate generative AI into its mRNA development and operational processes, securing ChatGPT Enterprise access for around 3,000 Moderna staff, leveraging GPT-4’s advanced language models. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-29 |
| Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA 🟢 |
Profluent, a Berkeley-based startup, is integrating generative AI into gene editing to improve disease treatment outcomes. They have launched OpenCRISPR-1, an open-source AI-driven gene editor, and emphasize the need for rigorous preclinical testing to validate the safety and efficacy of AI-assisted gene editing technologies. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, AI safety 🔐 |
2024-04-29 |
| ‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says 🟢 |
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the NVIDIA Blackwell computing platform at the GTC conference, aimed at advancing generative AI with superior training and inference capabilities. The platform includes enhanced interconnects for better performance and scalability. NVIDIA also launched NIM microservices for tailored AI deployment and Omniverse Cloud APIs for sophisticated simulation, signaling a transformative impact on sectors like healthcare and robotics. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Robotics 🤖, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ |
2024-03-25 |
| Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop 🟢 |
Neuralink demonstrated a significant advancement in brain-computer interfaces by presenting a paralyzed human patient who can play chess and operate a computer cursor with a brain implant. This milestone follows FDA approval for clinical trials and underscores the technology’s potential to revolutionize assistance for paralyzed individuals and perhaps expand abilities for the non-disabled. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Neuralink 🧠 |
2024-03-25 |
| Evo: Long-context modeling from molecular to genome scale 🟢 |
Evo is an advanced bio foundation model based on the StripedHyena architecture, specialized in interpreting biological data such as genomes and proteins with a vocabulary over 650k tokens. It’s been created by Together AI and the Arc Institute. |
AI in healthcare 🏥 |
2024-03-04 |
| Elon Musk’s Neuralink has thousands of people lined up for a brain chip implant 🟢 |
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is gaining significant interest, as thousands of people in the artificial intelligence field express enthusiasm for receiving a brain chip implant. The chip aims to help those with neurological disorders control devices and communicate using their brain. With approval for human trials and thousands lining up for the opportunity, the potential benefits of this brain-computer interface range from gaming to mind-based communication. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Neuralink 🧠 |
2023-11-13 |
| A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold 🟢 |
AlphaFold, an advanced AI model, accurately predicts molecules in the Protein Data Bank, improving understanding of biomolecules and supporting research in complex protein structures. It has potential applications in cancer drug discovery, vaccine development, and pollution reduction |
AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 |
2023-11-06 |
| AI Could Help Brain Surgeons Diagnose Tumors in Real Time 🟢 |
“Sturgeon” is an AI model utilizing nanopore sequencing to quickly and precisely diagnose brain tumors, revolutionizing medical treatment. By mimicking human brain activity and employing algorithms, Sturgeon can recognize patterns and provide accurate diagnoses within 40 minutes. |
AI in healthcare 🏥 |
2023-10-23 |
| DeepMind announces AlphaMissense, a catalogue of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the cause of diseases 🟢 |
DeepMind has released AlphaMissense, a model that uses AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction to categorize missense genetic mutations as benign or malign. It surpasses human efforts by classifying 89% of 71 million variants. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 |
2023-09-25 |
| Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals 🟢 |
Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI system designed to provide medical information, has been undergoing testing in a hospital setting. While the model shows promise in areas with limited access to doctors, it does exhibit some inaccuracies and irrelevant responses. In terms of reasoning, consensus-supported answers, and comprehension, Med-PaLM 2 performs comparably to human doctors. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Google 🔍 |
2023-07-17 |
| Nvidia deepens bets on AI in drug discovery with Recursion investment 🟢 |
Nvidia invests $50M in Recursion, a biotech company using AI to revolutionize drug discovery. This partnership allows Recursion to utilize Nvidia’s platform and access their advanced AI technology. Recursion’s share price surged by 83% post-announcement, highlighting the market’s recognition of AI’s significance in drug discovery. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ |
2023-07-17 |
| Google Lens can now search for skin conditions 🟢 |
Google Lens now has a feature that can identify skin conditions and other physical maladies by analyzing uploaded images. The feature can be integrated with chatbots to provide accurate answers about objects in photos. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google 🔍 |
2023-06-20 |
| Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters 🟢 |
Intel has announced the Aurora genAI model, with 1 trillion parameters, which will be trained on scientific texts and structured scientific data to target cancer research, systems biology, cosmology, polymer chemistry, materials, and climate science. It will be powered by the Aurora supercomputer and has potential to suggest experiments and accelerate drug design targets. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ |
2023-05-29 |
| New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI 🟢 |
Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic using AI to identify a compound that kills Acinetobacter baumannii with few signs of resistance, demonstrating the power of AI in identifying potential new antibiotics and hastening the pace of discovery of new treatments. |
AI in healthcare 🏥 |
2023-05-29 |
| Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People’s Thoughts in Breakthrough 🟢 |
An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, ChatGPT 💬 |
2023-05-09 |
| How AI Can Help Create and Optimize Drugs To Treat Opioid Addiction 🟢 |
It could save thousands of lives every year. |
AI in healthcare 🏥 |
2023-02-27 |
| Could Stable Diffusion Solve a Gap in Medical Imaging Data? 🟢 |
Stanford scholars found a way to generate synthetic chest X-rays by fine-tuning the open-source Stable Diffusion foundation model. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ |
2023-02-20 |
| Announcing the launch of the Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) |
Work on creating a foundational model in Medical AI. |
AI in healthcare 🏥 |
2023-02-13 |
| Nvidia Debuts Generative AI Model for Medical Research 🟢 |
Nvidia and Evozyne have debuted ProT-VAE, a generative AI model capable of producing proteins to use in medicine and other industries. The model uses deep learning and generative AI to synthesize variants of proteins to create more effective enzymes. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, NVIDIA 🎮 |
2023-01-23 |