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Health And Biotech Startups Now Get The Majority Of US Series A Funding

Crunchbase News

This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. So far in 2024, biotech and health companies have pulled in around $5.6 The biotech sector’s comparatively strong showing comes as overall Series A dealmaking looks on track to come in a bit above last year’s totals.

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Protein programmers get a helping hand from Cradle’s generative AI

TechCrunch

Interestingly the model itself is not biotech-specific exactly but a derivative of the same “large language models” that have produced text production engines like GPT-3. ” Generate Biomedicines raises $370M Series B with a focus on protein-based drugs. Image Credits: Cradle.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Using predictive LTV, Boston VC survey, active learning for ML teams

TechCrunch

” Going private: A guide to PE tech acquisitions Biotech proved a surprisingly bright spot in 2022’s startup correction Image Credits: Getty Images The hard science and regulations that govern biotech companies sets them far apart from other startups. biotech deals also set new records in 2022 for both median deal size, $33.5

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Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI

TechCrunch

Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases. Characterizing proteins can reveal the mechanisms of a disease, including ways to slow it or potentially reverse it, while creating proteins can lead to entirely new classes of drugs and therapeutics.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed. And software code is a language.”

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3 ways to break out of AI ‘pilot purgatory’

CIO

Today we worry this phenomenon is playing out with enterprise adoption of generative AI. Generative AI (genAI) arrived on the scene with use cases such as “support chatbots” or “talk to your documentation apps” that were so obviously useful that many companies are well on their way to taking them into production.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Laps Field In Another Slow Week

Crunchbase News

xAI , $6B, artificial intelligence: Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI, officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI. among others. among others. The xAI round had been rumored for months. just earlier this year.

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