AI Emerges As A Major Player In The Race To Find Covid-19 Therapies And Vaccines

Covid-19 is the new Manhattan Project and AI emerges as a major player in it. Covid-19 research has quickly created unprecedented amounts of publicly available research data from federal governments, industry, and university research labs at record rates. For example, the Covid-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) created by the Allen Institute for AI in collaboration with government agencies, universities, and industry partners started with 13,000 Covid-19 scholarly articles. Two months later, it had grown to over 128K articles. Research data on a topic normally takes years, not months to grow that large.