The LinkedIn guy is throwing his money at a cancer startup that uses AI to speed up drug development. Reid Hoffman teamed up with a Pulitzer Prize-winning cancer doctor to launch Manas AI, which is trying to cut down the insane timeline and cost of getting new treatments to market by using machine learning on massive datasets.
They already pulled in nearly 25 million bucks from investors, and Microsoft is letting them use some unreleased AI tools on its Azure platform. The company is focusing on the really nasty cancers like triple-negative breast cancer and aggressive lymphoma, hoping to compress what normally takes forever into just a few years.
Hoffman made his billions from LinkedIn before Microsoft bought it for 27 billion, and he also got in early on Facebook and Airbnb. He thinks AI could actually solve some huge problems for humanity instead of just automating random corporate tasks, and curing cancer seems like a pretty solid bet for that.
They already pulled in nearly 25 million bucks from investors, and Microsoft is letting them use some unreleased AI tools on its Azure platform. The company is focusing on the really nasty cancers like triple-negative breast cancer and aggressive lymphoma, hoping to compress what normally takes forever into just a few years.
Hoffman made his billions from LinkedIn before Microsoft bought it for 27 billion, and he also got in early on Facebook and Airbnb. He thinks AI could actually solve some huge problems for humanity instead of just automating random corporate tasks, and curing cancer seems like a pretty solid bet for that.
