You are building a supercomputer with NVIDIA. What problem are you actually trying to solve with that project?
Replied byDave Ricks
Chair & CEO at Eli Lilly and Company
Niche: Pharmaceuticals, AI, Health & Wellness
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2015 or
Biology is now a data problem. With NVIDIA we are building a system that can simulate and rank billions of potential interactions across protein structures, genomics, clinical histories, and imaging. The goal is not for the machine to invent drugs, but to narrow the search so scientists start from higher-probability ideas.
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