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Over the last 24 hours, billions of dollars and a lead investor
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Over the last 24 hours, billions of dollars and a lead investor.
Key facts
- With 337,000 followers and 1.6 million likes, Lightspeed Venture Partners hired her in a role that’s never existed in venture before: New Media and Investor
- Hassabis and Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, which won the 2024 Nobel Prize, is the foundation of the Isomorphic spinout, proof that AI could make biological vastness legible
- Over the last 24 hours, billions of dollars and a lead investor
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Summary
The reporter has an admittedly odd vantage point here: Two of the biggest features of their career to date have involved me spending a lot of time with Anduril and Isomorphic, respectively, a defense tech company and an AI drug discovery company. Both Anduril and Isomorphic are deeply technical companies that have risen at a time when advances in AI have not only rendered the impossible possible, but made moonshots seem earthbound. When the numbers are tallied for all the venture dollars flowing into AI, though these billions will count, neither is something the reporter would personally consider “an AI company,” whatever such a phrase means these days. Perhaps the more salient thing Anduril and Isomorphic have in common: Both are at inflection points where, in the coming months and years, results matter more than anything else.