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🧠 Microsoft opens the flood gates to novel protein-building
PLUS: Weekly AI fundraising wrap up
Alan Buxbaum & Alex Valaitis
September 15, 2023
It’s Friday Big Brainers!
It’s the end of the work week and we’re ready to send you into the weekend feeling all caught up on AI.
Today' we’ve got a breakthrough use case of AI, an awesome new AI program launching in Texas & a summary of the top AI fundraising rounds!
Today's AI spotlights:
Microsoft opens the flood gates to novel protein-building 👷♂️
The first dual-degree for AI and medicine launches in Texas 🇺🇸
Weekly AI fundraising wrap up 🤑
Read time: 4 minutes
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NEWS
Proteins: they're kinda like nature's Legos. They build stuff, break stuff; and that "stuff" includes diseases.
For this reason, scientists have been studying ways to manipulate proteins for some time. Unfortunately, designing them in labs has always been a pricey endeavor...
That is, until Microsoft's release of EvoDiff.
Think of EvoDiff like an AI wizard for making proteins without needing a blueprint. And before you even ask, yes, it's open source.
So what's the driving force behind this new tech? Try a 640-parameter model trained on protein data from various species. It's a diffusion model, similar to those that create images.
We don't know about you, but our eyes are peeled on where EvoDiff and applications like it take medicine next.
NEWS
At its core, AI is interdisciplinary. After all, it’s about the applications for it, rather than the technology itself.
Well, it looks like UT Health San Antonio and UTSA are working this concept into their curriculum.
The two schools are teaming up and launching the first U.S. dual degree in Medicine and AI. The program itself is five years to clinch both Doctor of Medicine and Master in AI titles.
Given the synergy between the two fields, it's no wonder we're seeing this type of degree as one of the first-movers. Already, AI's improving patient treatments, surgeries, and diagnostics. It's even streamlining admin tasks!
The program offers three specializations and research opportunities.
📰 OTHER HEADLINES & STORIES
💰AI Fundraising Wrap Up
Pixis: This startup revealed that it secured $85 million in a Series C1 funding round. Touring Capital spearheaded the round, with contributions from Grupo Carso, General Atlantic, Celesta Capital, and Chiratae Ventures.
Pixis is an AI-powered full-stack marketing platform that leverages AI to optimize campaigns. It provides codeless AI infrastructure for growth marketing, enabling AI-powered decision-making for cross-platform performance and growth marketing.
CertifID: This real estate-fraud protection startup disclosed a $20 million funding boost led by Arthur Ventures, valuing the company at more than twice its previous worth.
Founded in 2017 after its co-founder Thomas Cronkright lost $180,000 to fraud in his Michigan real estate agency, CertifID, focuses on creating products to counter wire fraud. (Talk about capitalizing on an unpleasant experience!)
Enfabrica: This chip company unveiled a $125 million Series B funding this week, elevating its valuation to five times its Series A, as per CEO Rochan Sankar. With Atreides Management at the helm and contributions from firms like Nvidia and Sutter Hill Ventures, Enfabrica's total funds now stand at $148 million.
Enfabrica specializes in networking chips for AI and machine learning tasks. The team says that they’re motivated by the mission to revolutionize next-gen distributed, accelerated computing.
LastMile AI: This developer-centric-startup secured $10 million in seed funding. Gradient, Google's venture fund dedicated to AI, spearheaded the round.
LastMile AI is an AI developer platform for engineering teams. Their goal is to help teams prototype and produce generative AI apps, access generative AI models, and build AI applications in one playground.
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🤖 PROMPT OF THE DAY
Ok that first one is pretty solid 👏
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