Google's New Company Will Discover Medicines Via Artificial Intelligence & Save Lives

In the last two decades, Google has changed the way humans create, transfer, operate, and consume data. The effect of Google on human history is immense. And now with advanced tools like Artificial Intelligence at its disposal, the company is on the way to making a deeper impact on the human species. This time, Google's parent company Alphabet has launched a startup with an aim of discovering new drugs using AI. After the success of DeepMind, the company uses AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein directly from its amino acid sequence, Alphabet has launched Isomorphic Laboratories for discovering new drugs using the power of AI. "I'm thrilled to announce the creation of a new Alphabet company -- Isomorphic Labs -- a commercial venture with the mission to reimagine the entire drug discovery process from the ground up with an AI-first approach and, ultimately, to model and understand some of the fundamental mechanisms of life," DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said in a statement Even though Hassabis will serve as the CEO for Isomorphic during the initial phase, the two companies will stay separate and collaborate where relevant.