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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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YC-backed Remedial Health raises $1 million pre-seed to digitize pharmacies in Nigeria

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before expanding to the rest of Africa. Part of the new funding will be used to extend the startup’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering, for an even wider reach.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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K Health expands into virtual childcare and raises $132 million at a $1.5 billion valuation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

For pharmaceutical companies that could mean insights into population health that could be potentially profitable avenues for drug discovery. In practice, patients get what they pay for. “Drug referrals, acute issues, prevention issues, most of those can be done remotely,” Bloch said.

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How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As with just about any AI models, WhiteLab Genomics uses myriad datasets to train its algorithms spanning genomic, RNA, oncologic, and protein repositories, in addition to “an exhaustive set of documentation” such as public scientific and clinical research data. Show me the data.

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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

More recently, VR has been used in all manner of health care scenarios, from treating social anxiety and other mental health conditions , to surgical training. Big impact.

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Curebase thinks the future of clinical testing is decentralized, and raises $40M to prove it

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

“We put trained principal investigators in charge of each study. ” Clearly there’s value here, as the company has seen major growth (it’s done 50 studies so far, with the yearly number tripling or more each year it has existed) and now attracted significant strategic funding from pharmaceutical company Gilead.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Investment in training and change management is critical to the success. The CoE in this phase has to proactively engage ALL stakeholders, making them aware of the change in the mode of operation and guiding the team through training, coffee chats, and CoE sessions during this period of transformation.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

With more than 30,000 employees spread across more than 60 affiliate locations and 14 manufacturing sites around the world, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly operates at a truly global scale. From internal training materials to formal, technical communications to regulatory agencies, Lilly is translating information often,” says Timothy F.

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Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. But with claims of reducing that cost by another order of magnitude to $100, Ultima Genomics may even further accelerate this economy.

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Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

While the company is concentrating on financial services for now because Wijesinghe has been working with these companies for years, he sees uses cases far beyond a single vertical including pharmaceuticals, government, healthcare telco and manufacturing.

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8-10x performance upticks in next-gen infrastructure enable AI workloads

CIO

MAY 5, 2023

The upgraded Dell Technologies solution portfolio includes a range of GPU-optimized servers for AI training and CPU-powered servers for enterprise-wide AI inferencing, both of which are essential, co-existing elements of AI deployment. Consider, for example, a pharmaceutical company using AI modeling and simulation for drug discovery.

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AI drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine announces $255 million in Series C funding

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Ideally, Zhavoronkov imagines an AI-based platform trained on rich data that can cut down on the amount of failed trials. For instance, Insilico Medicine has collaborated with Pfizer on novel target discovery, and Johnson & Johnson on small molecule design, and done both with Taisho Pharmaceuticals.

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How CIOs overcome the challenges of leading IT in smaller cities

CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Talent woes The foremost challenge for CIOs working outside of big cities is to get trained and skilled resources. If we want to beat competition in the pharmaceutical industry, we must make use of next generation of technologies such as cloud, big data, and analytics. “If Those who get trained and stay back expect promotions.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

JULY 18, 2023

AI, crypto mining, and the metaverse One of the biggest drivers of demand for Nvidia’s chips in recent years has been AI, or, more specifically, the need to perform trillions of repetitive calculations to train machine learning models. Some of those models are truly gargantuan: OpenAI’s GPT-4 is said to have over 1 trillion parameters.

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

AI drug discovery relies on a massive amount of investment in so-called contract research organizations (CROs), which provide support to pharmaceutical or medical device companies in the form of outsourcing. “Ren generates a lot of proprietary data for us to train AI to do better than humans.

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The IT sector is bringing down Europe all on its own

CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

But it is not time to give up ambitions, as a weak European tech sector hinders innovation in other areas such as pharmaceuticals, energy, and defense. And he thinks the AI train hasn’t completely left the station and apparently we’re very good at autonomous robots?

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The next healthcare revolution will have AI at its center

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Studies have shown that AI trained on sizable data can outperform physicians in several areas of medical diagnosis regarding brain tumors, eye disease, breast cancer, skin cancer and lung cancer. Doing all of this well is beyond human capabilities. AI-powered diagnosis.

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Johnson & Johnson’s big bet on intelligent automation

CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the global COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to spread, the company, one of the world’s largest suppliers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer packaged goods, needed to reduce costs, speed up tasks, and improve the accuracy of its core business operations. Generally, J&J prefers everything in billions.”

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO

AUGUST 11, 2023

Natural language processing definition Natural language processing (NLP) is the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with training computers to understand, process, and generate language. Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And he said that Egypt and other nations — looking to the success that India has had — have been providing technology expertise training to residents to help them find jobs in the “outsourcing economy.”

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Meet the 14 companies launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

MedCompli is looking to help small biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies manage compliance, risk and governance. While most gaming training platforms focus on individual skill, SquadOV captures and synchronizes video across multiple teammates to let them watch back and improve team performance as a whole. departments.

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MIT spinoff Via Separations scores $38M Series B to decarbonize manufacturing

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an early startup building a complex solution, Via has decided to concentrate on the $5 billion pulp paper industry for now, but the technology could be more broadly applicable in other industries like petrochemicals, food and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. That may mean hiring based on potential, rather than experience.

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Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence COVID-19 variants and other complex data problems

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although medicine and life sciences are perhaps Seqera’s most obvious and timely applications today, the framework originally designed for genetics and biology can be applied to any a number of other areas: AI training, image analysis and astronomy are three early use cases, Floden said.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Truveta , $320M, biotech: Medical data research company Truveta landed a massive $320 million investment from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , Illumina and 17 U.S. Founded in 1998, DDN formerly called DataDirect Networks helps companies store, analyze and manage data a value commodity as more businesses look to create and train AI models.

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NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Skinner notes that cells are differentiated by their size and composition, so the company has trained the algorithm to count the different cells and then provide trends as to whether blood cells are changing in a good or bad way. The company’s Series A investment round, which Skinner says will consist of $10 million, will occur in 2023.

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Boosted by the pandemic, meeting transcription service Otter.ai raises $50M

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company has found some traction with businesses like professional services, pharmaceutical companies, financial services and other multinationals where employees work across time zones. transcripts are used as training data to improve its accuracy — learning from users’ manual corrections, from new accents, and the like.

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6 BI challenges IT teams must address

CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“We have more than 100,000 associates in addition to externals working for us, and that’s quite a large user group to serve,” says Axel Goris, global visual analytics lead at Novartis, the multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. “A But many find other solutions.

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Nvidia’s strong earnings highlight AI’s rapid incursion across industries

CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

AI breaking barriers across verticals The growth in data center operations during the fourth quarter was attributed to the training and inference of generative AI and large language models, spanning a diverse array of industries, use cases, and regions.

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Deploy large language models for a healthtech use case on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2021, the pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue. Pharmaceutical companies sell a variety of different, often novel, drugs on the market, where sometimes unintended but serious adverse events can occur. We implemented the solution using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).

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The Promise and Perils of Building AI Into Your Business Applications

Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 2, 2024

Pharmaceutical enterprises are trying to use their past research, trials and outcomes to train models, thereby accelerating their ability to take their next drug to the market. But what if the organization leverages an open-source model that was trained on poisoned data, leading to incorrect or misleading trial results?

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

There’s also the ever-present threat of copyright lawsuits related to AI-generated text and images, accuracy of AI-generated content, and the risk of having sensitive information become training data for the next generation of the AI model — and getting exposed to the world. How transparent are they in their model training process?”

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Healthcare Leads For New Unicorn Counts In January As AI Theme Continues

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Genetic database research company Truveta raised a $320 million Series C from public healthcare companies Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Illumina alongside 17 U.S. Transportation Netradyne , a provider of computer vision technology for fleet driver safety and training, raised a $90 million Series D led by Point72 Ventures.

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How AI is transforming business today

CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They’ll be able to perform tasks, such as computer coding, that they currently cannot do without specialized training, and they’d be able to do so at a level and speed that exceeds what the experts can do today. Consequently, workers won’t see incremental bumps in productivity; rather, they’ll experience multifold gains in productivity.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Barcelona proves a perfect fit Lufthansa Group is joining a host of major business peers in powering up a digital hub in Barcelona, including fast-moving consumer goods makers Danone and Unilever, tech firm Dynatrace, and Roche in pharmaceuticals.

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John Snow Labs Medical LLMs are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

John Snow Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Its award-winning medical AI software powers the world’s leading pharmaceuticals, academic medical centers, and health technology companies. ML practitioners can deploy FMs to dedicated Amazon SageMaker instances from a network isolated environment and customize models using SageMaker for model training and deployment.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. Alys Pharmaceuticals , $100M, biotech: Investment firm Medicxi merged six of its dermatology-focused portfolio companies to launch Alys Pharmaceuticals this week with $100 million in funding. billion valuation.

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Lack of inclusive culture is driving UK youth from tech jobs

CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The report comprises responses from 2,000 18-to-24 year-olds—44% of whom were already working in tech roles—and 200 senior business leaders in key industries, including financial services, insurance and pharmaceuticals.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How to become a data architect Data architect is an evolving role and there is no industry-standard certification or training program for data architects. Data scientists are experts in applying computer science, mathematics, and statistics to building models.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO

JUNE 22, 2023

Healthcare Technology is paramount for the healthcare industry, including the medical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Even internally, finance companies such as Discover , have focused on building IT and tech training platforms to upskill workers to help meet the rapidly growing need for talent.

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Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Taha Kass-Hout, and is part of the central Science & Technology Organization that works in partnership with the company’s business segments such as Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Monitoring, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics. Long term, Bhatia says he would love to see his role make impact towards health-care equity.

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SAP CEO Christian Klein: Everything we do contains AI

CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

According to Herzig, Joule was trained with 250 million lines of ABAP code for this purpose. Among the customers who have taken the Rise path with SAP are, for example, the car manufacturers Hyundai and Kia, the pharmaceutical company Moderna, and the IT giants Amazon, HP, and Nvidia.

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Converge Bio raises $5.5M in Seed funding to speed up drug discovery and development with GenAI

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Converge Bio’s platform uses large language models (LLMs) trained on biological and chemical data (DNA, RNA, protein sequences, and small molecules) to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies […] The post Converge Bio raises $5.5M million in Seed funding, led by TLV Partners.

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How generative AI impacts your digital transformation priorities

CIO

AUGUST 1, 2023

Peter Pezaris, chief design and strategy officer at New Relic, says, “Training large language models can be expensive, and the outputs haven’t been perfected, so leaders should prioritize investing in solutions that help monitor usage costs and improve the quality of query results.”

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

YC-backed Remedial Health raises $1 million pre-seed to digitize pharmacies in Nigeria

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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K Health expands into virtual childcare and raises $132 million at a $1.5 billion valuation

How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development

Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

Curebase thinks the future of clinical testing is decentralized, and raises $40M to prove it

Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data

8-10x performance upticks in next-gen infrastructure enable AI workloads

AI drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine announces $255 million in Series C funding

How CIOs overcome the challenges of leading IT in smaller cities

How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

The IT sector is bringing down Europe all on its own

The next healthcare revolution will have AI at its center

Johnson & Johnson’s big bet on intelligent automation

What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

Meet the 14 companies launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

MIT spinoff Via Separations scores $38M Series B to decarbonize manufacturing

Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence COVID-19 variants and other complex data problems

The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month

NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

Boosted by the pandemic, meeting transcription service Otter.ai raises $50M

6 BI challenges IT teams must address

Nvidia’s strong earnings highlight AI’s rapid incursion across industries

Deploy large language models for a healthtech use case on Amazon SageMaker

The Promise and Perils of Building AI Into Your Business Applications

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

Healthcare Leads For New Unicorn Counts In January As AI Theme Continues

How AI is transforming business today

Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

John Snow Labs Medical LLMs are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

Lack of inclusive culture is driving UK youth from tech jobs

What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

SAP CEO Christian Klein: Everything we do contains AI

Converge Bio raises $5.5M in Seed funding to speed up drug discovery and development with GenAI

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