NVIDIA and Eli Lilly Launch $1 Billion AI Lab to Accelerate Drug Discovery
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Summary
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly have launched an AI co-innovation lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, committing up to $1 billion over five years to accelerate drug discovery using AI. The lab leverages NVIDIA's BioNeMo platform and Vera Rubin architecture, while Eli Lilly has built the "LillyPod" supercomputer using NVIDIA GPUs. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang framed this as part of the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, with the pharmaceutical industry increasingly integrated into AI development.
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