Pioneering Intelligence

Flagship Pioneering raises $3.6 billion to fuel critical breakthroughs in human health and sustainability. This expanded capital pool will accelerate the impact of original science and the creation and development of an estimated 25 breakthrough companies in human health, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. Hear from Flagship Founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan about how we're taking #BiggerLeaps by leveraging the power of generative AI, forging novel partnerships with pharma to speed drug development, expanding globally, and promoting and hiring top talent to our leadership ranks. Read the full press release: https://bit.ly/4eQfx05

Drug Discovery, meet Generative AI. Thrilled to unveil Flagship Pioneering's exciting achievement in the biotech sector: harnessing the power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for faster drug discovery and improving retrieval accuracy by 18.5% with Activeloop Deep Lake. Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents platforms and builds companies focused on making bigger leaps in human health and sustainability. The company’s work ranges from applications in human health, such as designing new therapeutic modalities or early cancer detection, to tackling challenges in climate and sustainability, such as finding more resilient forms of agriculture. Flagship, and its Pioneering Intelligence (PI) initiative, as well as Activeloop embarked on a collaboration to solve a challenge: efficiently answering complex scientific questions by searching through large-scale, multi-modal data without compromising accuracy or adding complexity? This is where Activeloop made a difference. Together, Pioneering Intelligence and Activeloop formed a research partnership to address these needs. PI developed systems to generate and evaluate “realistic” questions across a diverse range of biological topics that Flagship might pose during scientific exploration. Activeloop provided Deep Lake, the database for AI, and a capability called Deep Memory. Deep Memory enhances retrieval accuracy using a learnable index from labeled queries for specific RAG applications without affecting search time. 🚀 With Activeloop, Flagship Pioneering significantly improved their retrieval capabilities, with a 18% increase in accuracy compared to traditional methods, and streamlining drug discovery R&D process. 💡 Key Insights: 1️⃣ Efficiency & Accuracy: Deep Lake and Deep Memory enhance RAG applications in biotech with simpler data access and increased accuracy. 2️⃣ Multi-Layer Solutions to Solve Pressing Issues: The synergy between Flagship Pioneering, Activeloop, and the Intel Rise Program showcases how biotech's most pressing challenges can be addressed with AI-native data storage and computing (Intel XEON scalable processors). 3️⃣ Multi-Modality as a Key to Innovation: With plans to expand across data types, Flagship is leading industry innovation in how biologists interact with scientific data 🌟 Mark Kim summarized it best while talking about the collaboration and Deep Lake as a key building block for GenAI: In science, sometimes you have to rethink the basics to make progress. Flagship’s work with Activeloop has been all about that—getting back to the core of how we store and retrieve data for AI to speed up how we solve really tough scientific problems. This success wouldn't be possible without the support of Chris, Susan, and Arijit from the Intel Corporation & the thought leadership of Ian and Mark from Pioneering Intelligence, who are at the forefront of GenAI at Flagship Pioneering! Read the case study (in the comments) and watch the video below.

When we talk about #ArtificialIntelligence in the #Boston Metro area, we should talk about #biotech as the center of opportunity. #AI models/algorithms are becoming core to biotech discoveries and their drug development processes. As a result, AI and biotech talent are becoming interchangeable. Read my letter in the Boston Globe Media here: https://lnkd.in/dFUYB5Wq #biggerleaps #Massachusetts

I am excited to be on stage with Nicolo Fusi, francesca dominici, Sham Kakade and Robert Huckman at the upcoming Leading with AI conference hosted by the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard on May 7!   For more details, to view the full agenda and register for the live streaming click here: https://lnkd.in/dGxU8NMM   #HBSLeadingwithAI #D3 #InnovationUnleashed #DigitalInnovation #FutureofAI

I'm leaving NVIDIA GTC feeling energized, optimistic, and inspired by the tangible future of #artificialintelligence that's unfolding before our very eyes. NVIDIA has orchestrated an incredible assembly, bringing together technologists and innovators from the most diverse fields—robotics, climate tech, semiconductors (to name a few) and, of course, #lifesciences and #healthcare. As we continue exploring, experimenting, and uncovering new tools and methods, their application areas, and the breadth of their potential impact, the fervor with which both individual researchers and entire organizations are addressing today's challenges promises to usher in groundbreaking discoveries. These efforts are poised to revolutionize human health and productivity. At Flagship, our commitment to pioneering—through our enterprises and the dedicated efforts of our Pioneering Intelligence team, in partnership with like-minded partners—remains unwavering. Together, we're poised to achieve even #biggerleaps in #AI. Here's to breaking new ground, welcoming transformation, and catalyzing significant advancements in AI. #GTC24 Flagship Pioneering Kimberly Powell, Rory Kelleher, Anthony Costa, Steve Gately

We’re honored to be named to Fast Company’s 2024 World’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third year in a row for our work innovating breakthrough biotech platforms to take bigger leaps for patients and the planet: https://bit.ly/3PsFXts #FCMostInnovative #BiggerLeaps