Baidu-backed drug discovery start-up Biomap challenges Google’s AlphaFold

Baidu-backed drug discovery start-up Biomap challenges Google’s AlphaFold

Biomap, a biotechnology start-up co-established by Baidu founder Robin Li Yanhong and backed by the Hong Kong government, says it has surpassed Alphabet subsidiary AlphaFold in commercialising artificial intelligence foundation models for drug discovery. Multinational pharmaceutical companies were seeing a “reverse” in the technological gap between Biomap and AlphaFold, Wei Liu, co-founder and CEO of…

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Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service achieves 20,000km of ‘safe driving’ in Hong Kong trials

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service achieves 20,000km of ‘safe driving’ in Hong Kong trials

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service has racked up 20,000 kilometres of “safe driving” in Hong Kong road tests, the company said on Saturday, as the city expands driverless vehicle trial areas in efforts to develop the sector. The mileage was completed during trials in Hong Kong’s Northern Lantau and Tung Chung areas since receiving the…

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