In Race to Treat Coronavirus, AI Is Seen as Key

The race to develop vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus is a high-tech moonshot employing artificial intelligence, quantum physics, computational chemistry and cloud computing, according to one key researcher in China. "What we try to do is develop some very fundamental technologies which are essential to discovering treatment for the coronavirus," said Lipeng Lai, co-founder and head of AI research at XtalPi Inc., a pharmaceutical-technology company.