Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

Image Credits: koto_feja / Getty Images Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could — if brought to market — help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers …

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Anthropic: Google-backed AI startup raises $100 million from South Korean telecom giant

Anthropic: Google-backed AI startup raises 0 million from South Korean telecom giant

Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Google, has secured a funding of $100 million from South Korea’s SK Telecom. This investment will strengthen SK Telecom’s telecommunications-driven AI business. Anthropic is a competitor of OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company that developed ChatGPT. It is one of the most well-funded AI firms, having raised $450 million from investors …

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