Azeem Azhar's Exponential View / Season 4, Episode 21

The Next Trillion-Dollar Market

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How AI, genomics, and automation are powering biotech breakthroughs.

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April 01, 2020

Biotech is gathering pace: AI systems are simulating novel materials, new genomic technologies are enabling precision bioengineering, and automation is executing production on a massive scale. Softbank Vision Fund Senior Managing Partner, Deep Nishar tells Azeem Azhar why biotech is the next trillion-dollar market, and what breakthroughs to expect.

In this episode they also discuss:

  • Why emerging biotech and AI, together, would help control and stop coronavirus-like outbreaks in the future.
  • What new materials and medicines are coming out of the “virtuous cycle” of research and funding that is now taking off.
  • What the rest of the world should learn from China’s vigorous development of AI technologies.

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