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Posted on 01/13/2026 9:38:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Nvidia on Monday announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years in a potentially groundbreaking joint laboratory with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, and the goal is enormous — to supercharge the slow, costly process of drug discovery by integrating advanced artificial intelligence directly into laboratory workflows.
The facility will be built in Silicon Valley, placing Lilly’s deep pharmaceutical research expertise right alongside AI innovation. The lab will leverage Nvidia’s BioNeMo platform, a suite of AI models designed to analyze molecular structures and speed the process of identifying promising drug candidates. The collaboration is designed as a two-way knowledge transfer: AI engineers from Nvidia will gain hands-on experience with real-world lab equipment, while Lilly’s scientists will work to fine-tune algorithms and AI systems to take over specific research tasks.
“AI is transforming every industry, and its most profound impact will be in life sciences,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement, noting that his company and Lilly "are bringing together the best of our industries to invent a new blueprint for drug discovery — one where scientists can explore vast biological and chemical spaces in silico before a single molecule is made.”
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I will not take any newly discovered drugs.
This is wishful thinking on steroids: there will be unspeakable pressure to “prove” the usefulness of this approach, and the business leaders will not be above faking data or putting their thumbs on the scales to get positive results in order to retroactively justify the compute spend.
I think this is the first of many joint ventures like this, just in the pharmaceutical industry alone, other major companies like Merck, Pfizer, etc., all of them will likely create similar ventures.
Just think about the Chip Industry, using these advance technologies to create even more advanced technologies.
The possibilities are endless.
A billion dollars on AI pharmaceuticals is not a big deal for a multi-trillion dollar company like nVidia.
No thanks.
Drug discovery is based on combinatorial chemistry - combining different building blocks in different ways and observing the results. AI offers a substantially faster way to do it, nothing will change once a potential new medicine is identified for further testing.
Will this put the White Mice producers out of business?
I can’t recall the corp name, but they are on Mount Desert Island, ME. Apparently, they supply the pharma industry with the White Mice.
Maybe I should buy PUT options on their stock.
If AI is so good, how come they haven’t replace their C-Suite with it ???
>> nothing will change once a potential new medicine is identified for further testing
Agree! I’ll bet nothing WILL change! It’ll still be profit-driven and rely upon hidden-agenda gubmint “experts” like Fauci.
“Ask your doctor if polluting your body with Damitol is right for you.”
JAX (Jackson Laboratories) ?
There is no evidence that this approach works. There are hundreds of potential drug candidates, all limited by their bioavailability, toxicity, stability, etc. Lion share of drug development time is spent on overcoming those challenges. And, as it it correctly noted, a billion dollars is peanuts for both Nvidia and Eli Lilly.
Yes, according to my son who is a Big Pharma Scientist.
He went there for a visit when he was at UNH for Biotechnology. They sell the white mice to everyone else.
I have driven/ridden by their campus going in and out of Acadia/Bar Harbor.
“I will not take any newly discovered drugs.”
If you are taking any medications today, they are all “newly discovered.”
“Nvidia And Eli Lilly To Build $1 Billion AI-Powered Drug Discovery Lab”. Maybe the drug companies could discover why they say: ‘Don’t take this medicine if you are allergic to it’. Right, sounds like a good idea, but how do you know?
In terms of keeping the desperate hype bubble going, it is not the money spent, but the "buzz" and the "See we told you so."
The Big Tech companies have spent over $700 BILLION over the last three years on AI infrastructure. That doesn't count ongoing electricity or the cost of upgrading to next-gen chips.
The AI hardware vendors know this.
Getting bikini pics of Queer Starmer, cat pictures, and fake female goldfish on OnlyFins will not pay the tab: the AI companies have only pulled in $40 billion in revenue in that time.
Motive, means, and opportunity are already there. Let's see if criminality ensues.
I think their ‘Black 6’ mice are the most widely used in research.
If you are taking any medications today, they are all “newly discovered.”
Stop trolling.
I’ve got a bio-scientist cousin. He works for venture capitalists. They send him to drug labs to decide if a company should get a $20mm loan (typical example) to develop a drug that is showing promise. I’ll have to ask him if A.I. is going to get in his way as a competitor.
It won’t work!
AI at this point cannot replicate human-powered drug discovery—let alone speed it up!
It would be interesting to hear what he thinks about AI and how it will affect the pharma industry. Keep me posted if possible.
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