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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

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Called OpenBioML , the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry. Stability AI’s ethically questionable decisions to date aside, machine learning in medicine is a minefield. Predicting protein structures.

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Be like Clariant: Open the door to machine learning

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Specialty chemical company Clariant , with TrendMiner as its partner, has unlocked machine learning (ML) to evolve its plants into augmented factories.

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Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software

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Profet AI , a Taiwanese startup that makes auto machine learning software for manufacturers, announced today it has raised $5.6 Profet AI’s software lets users build prediction models and industrial AI apps for production and digitalization, even if they only have basic knowledge of machine learning.

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Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round

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Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. The company leverages machine learning and a large body of knowledge about chemical reactions to create these processes, though as CSO Stanis? .

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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too

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Immunai’s approach to developing new insights around the human immune system uses a ‘multi-omic’ approach – essentially layering analysis of different types of biological data, including a cell’s genome, microbiome, epigenome (a genome’s chemical instruction set) and more.

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug. Sustainable chemistry, as defined by OECD , is “a scientific concept that seeks to improve the efficiency with which natural resources are used to meet human needs for chemical products and services.”

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The era of software-defined battery startups is here

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Designing and manufacturing pouches, slabs or cylinders filled with volatile chemicals that are capable of recharging ever more quickly is far from easy. “Batteries are hard,” an expert once said. He wasn’t kidding. Just ask LG, which had to pay GM nearly $2 billion for a costly manufacturing defect that saw every Chevy Bolt recalled.