ChinaByteDance’s AI drug unit is worth about $1.5 billion.
Huawei, OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia are also moving into drug discovery.
Anew Labs, spun out in June, raised $290 million in its first round three months later.
Huawei’s pharma chief Fan Jie says the company will not make drugs, only supply AI to drugmakers.
Isomorphic Labs’ first AI-designed cancer drug is about to enter human trials.
How each outlet framed it
- TMTPost
- reframes AI drug discovery against the 5,000-year sampling problem, citing Ciba-Geigy's 3×10^62 compound count
Sources: TMTPost