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The AI Podcast Recursion CEO Chris Gibson on Accelerating the Biopharmaceutical Industry With AI Ep. 230|
Time Stamps 0:58: Background on Recursion
6:23: Recursion's approach to drug discovery
12:06: Empirical data generation and generative AI prediction
17:46: How supercomputing is accelerating drug discovery
22:32: What is techbio?
29:15: The future - using natural language prompts to work with AI systems31:44: Recursion's plans for future
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