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Anthropic launches AI drug discovery program, joining tech giants in betting on healthcare
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- Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program as part of an effort to develop artificial intelligence tools designed for drugmakers, becoming the latest company to try and crack the healthcare market.
- "We're doing this because we believe first and foremost that to build the right models, products and tools to accelerate the industry, we need to live it along with all of you," Kauderer-Abrams said.
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Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program as part of an effort to develop artificial intelligence tools designed for drugmakers, becoming the latest company to try and crack the healthcare market.
At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic's life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams said the company will focus on discovering treatments for "neglected" diseases that traditional biopharmaceutical companies wouldn't consider attractive targets.
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