Baidu-backed drug discovery start-up Biomap challenges Google's AlphaFold

Biomap, a biotechnology start-up co-established by Baidu founder Robin Li Yanhong and backed by the Hong Kong government, ...
Cybernews

Baidu-backed BioMap claims lead over Google’s AlphaFold in AI drug discovery

BioMap, a biotech startup backed by Chinese tech giant Baidu and the Hong Kong government, has claimed that it’s now ahead of ...
EurekAlert!

New AI approach paves way for smarter T-cell immunotherapy and vaccine development

Los Angeles, CA – September 8, 2025 - Researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to tackle one of the most complex challenges in immunology: predicting how T cells recognize and ...

Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction

Apple developed an alternative AI model to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details.
BioWorld

Alphadesign: AI creating proteins from scratch

The Alphafold machine learning system for predicting a protein’s structure from its amino acid sequence has been adapted to make it possible to design de novo proteins that fold in a particular way ...

Exclusive: Former Google DeepMind researchers secure $5 million seed round for new company to bring algorithm-designing AI to the masses

The company, which is called Hiverge, emerged from stealth today with $5 million in seed funding, led by Flying Fish Ventures ...