Good morning. Let’s start with an inspiring quote today:
“I think eventually, over the next 10 to 20 years, we could get to finding a solution to all disease.”
Those are the words of Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, whose views on AI have made him one of the key luminaries at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
As my colleague Allie Garfinkle writes in the latest print issue of Fortune magazine, Hassabis has a fascinating side gig as the CEO of Isomorphic Labs, which is trying to revolutionize the drug discovery game. Whereas a typical biotech startup might do one or two drugs its entire corporate life, Hassabis is building an AI-driven system that he hopes will yield dozens of new drugs every year—and, as he told Allie, eventually “solve” disease. Read the full story here.
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