DOE, Google, Isomorphic, Meta announce $1.8B push to apply RL to drug discovery
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-07
The US Department of Energy, together with Google, Isomorphic Labs, Meta and others, announced a $1.8 billion initiative to bring reinforcement learning to pharma.
The author reads it as a signal that leading labs are pointing compute and research effort at high-value science problems — "like we did with math" — rather than mundane assistant applications.
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