Isomorphic was spun out of Google’s AI research arm Google DeepMind in 2021, but remains a wholly owned subsidiary of its parent company, Alphabet. The start-up’s potential has attracted big pharmaceutical partners, which are keen to lower expenses and boost efficiency of the costly drug development process.

according to a survey commissioned by Boston Consulting Group shared with the Financial Times. “People are starting to see, with AI and generative AI, the potential of those technologies to be more productive . . . in a world where the costs of ...

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Retro Biosciences will back clinical trials for three drugs—including a potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment set to begin studies this year.

The rapid development of AI systems over the past two years has stretched American infrastructure, with data centres emerging as a particular bottleneck. Cutting-edge chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude require enormous amounts of data and computing power to train and run.

Universities are the cornerstone of the country’s reputation as a global research hub but the business model is in crisis

OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. unveiled Project Stargate during a Tuesday press briefing at the White House. The companies intend to build an expansive network of data centers that will be optimized to run AI workloads. OpenAI will be the sole user of the data centers, the Financial Times’ sources said.

The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8bn from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.

Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as an artificial intelligence “agent” that can complete practical tasks, as the tech group races to resolve the challenges that have dogged the system’s AI overhaul.