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‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch

The proof-of-principle work, reported this week in a preprint on bioRxiv, raises the possibility of bringing AI-guided protein design to the therapeutic antibody market, which is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The work has not yet been peer reviewed.

March 19, 2024
‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
NVIDIA Launches Cloud Quantum-Computer Simulation Microservices

As a microservice, it lets users for the first time build and test in the cloud new quantum algorithms and applications — including powerful simulators and tools for hybrid quantum-classical programming.

March 18, 2024
NVIDIA Launches Cloud Quantum-Computer Simulation Microservices
Driving with Language: Introducing Wayve’s Multimodal Driving Model LINGO-2

Wayve unveils LINGO-2, the first vision-language-action model tested on public roads. LINGO-2 generates both driving behavior and textual predictions from the same deep learning model, providing a continuous commentary of its driving decisions.

March 17, 2024
Driving with Language: Introducing Wayve’s Multimodal Driving Model LINGO-2
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.

March 14, 2024
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
‘Parkour’ robot dog can leap, jump, and crawl

Four-legged, dog-inspired quadruped robots are generally more agile than their hulking bipedal counterparts, but they have mostly failed to match the fluid grace and athleticism of their furry canine inspirations. Now, a new wall-scaling robot is pushing the boundary of what these quadrupeds are capable of, and it’s doing so with a bit of flair.

March 14, 2024
‘Parkour’ robot dog can leap, jump, and crawl
AI Detects Cancer via DNA Repeats in Liquid Biopsies

...have developed a machine learning strategy that has shown the potential to predict cases of early-stage lung or liver cancers in humans, by detecting repetitive genetic sequences in the genome in cancerous tissue, as well as in cell-free DNA (cfDNA). The team suggests that the new method could provide a noninvasive means of detecting and characterizing cancers, or monitoring response to anticancer therapy.

March 13, 2024
AI Detects Cancer via DNA Repeats in Liquid Biopsies
AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development

...designed for autonomous planning and execution of intricate software engineering tasks... These AI agents can perform diverse operations on a codebase, including file editing, retrieval, build processes, execution, testing, and git operations.

March 13, 2024
AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer

With our advances in long-term reasoning and planning, Devin can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions. Devin can recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.

March 12, 2024
Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
Bile acids and the microbiome: revolutionising disease approaches

Thousands of bile acids have been discovered, providing new insights into how microbes influence distant organ systems.

March 11, 2024
Bile acids and the microbiome: revolutionising disease approaches
China Begins Testing AI Chatbot for Brain Surgeons in Hospitals

Researchers trained and fine-tuned the model with papers, medical journals and manuals to act as a surgery consultant of sorts for doctors.

The framework combines dimension reduction techniques and a new explainable clustering algorithm called CLASSIX, developed by mathematicians at The University of Manchester. This enables the quick identification of groups of viral genomes that might present a risk in the future from huge volumes of data.

10 March 2024 - ...foundation models, that are setting their sights on the fundamentals of biology. The models are not simply tidying up the information that biologists are collecting. They are making discoveries about how genes work and how cells develop.

https://readwrite.com/the-ai-dolls-to-tackle-loneliness-of-south-koreas-elderly-and-watch-them

March 11, 2024
China Begins Testing AI Chatbot for Brain Surgeons in Hospitals