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Inside Isomorphic Labs, the secretive AI life sciences startup spun off from Google DeepMind

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Isomorphic Labs was spun out of Google DeepMind , after the tech giant achieved one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years .

With a fresh $600 million , Isomorphic is setting out to achieve its ultimate goal: to "solve all disease" through AI-powered drug discovery.

The drug discovery market is expected to reach $71 billion in value by 2025 .

Sir Demis Hassabis , 48 , is one of the most important people at Google .

He co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with the goal of building "general-purpose" AI .

He sold DeepMind to Google in 2014 , reportedly for between $400 million and $650 million .

Isomorphic has been operating in quasi-stealth mode, keeping mostly quiet about its work.

Isomorphic will use its first external funding to expand into the field of biologics.

The company's new funding will also be used for compute a major issue in the AI space.

The startup will need to build more models to run at a greater scale with more data attached.

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