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  9. 💻⚡ Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Startup tackles AI drug discovery bottleneck with automated analysis platform

AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.

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Artificial intelligence has revolutionized drug discovery, with Google DeepMind's breakthrough in predicting protein structures leading the charge. However, as AI generates an unprecedented number of potential drug candidates, the pharmaceutical industry faces a new challenge: determining which ones are worth pursuing.

Enter 10x Science, a Stanford-born startup that raised $4.8 million in seed funding to solve this emerging bottleneck. Founded in December 2025 by chemical biologist David Roberts, biologist Andrew Reiter, and AI expert Vishnu Tejus, the company aims to streamline the crucial but time-intensive process of characterizing drug candidates.

"When biopharma tries to create a drug candidate, they have all of these really nice prediction tools," Roberts explained. "You can add as many candidates as you want to the top of the funnel, but they all have to pass through this characterization process. Everything needs to be measured."

The three founders previously collaborated in Nobel laureate Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi's lab at Stanford, studying interactions between cancer cells and immune systems. Their frustration with the inability to understand molecular-level processes precisely led them to develop their current solution.

10x Science addresses the challenge using mass spectrometry, the most accurate method for assessing molecular composition and structure. While this technique generates highly detailed data, interpreting it requires significant expertise and time – resources many biotech companies lack.

The startup's platform combines chemistry and biology-based algorithms with AI agents capable of interpreting complex spectrometry data. The team invested considerable effort training models specifically on spectrometry data while ensuring analyses remain traceable – essential for regulatory compliance in drug development.

Early user Matthew Crawford, a scientist at Rilas Technologies, has been testing the platform for several weeks. He reports significant improvements in workflow speed and efficiency. "I ran a particular protein through it, and it just kind of figured out, from what I named the file, what the protein probably was," Crawford said. "It then searched databases online for the sequence for that protein, so I didn't have to program in the sequence."

Crawford noted the system's ability to explain conclusions, autonomously find relevant data, and adapt to different molecule types – capabilities that distinguish it from other AI tools that often over-promise or lack accuracy.

The company is already working with major pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers. With seed funding led by Initialized Capital and backed by Y Combinator, Civilization Ventures, and Founder Factor, 10x Science plans to expand its engineering team and refine its model for broader customer adoption.

Roberts envisions expanding beyond protein characterization to offer comprehensive biological understanding by combining protein structure data with other cellular information. "The deeper thing behind what we're building is actually a new way to define molecular intelligence," he said.

For investors, 10x Science represents an attractive entry into biotech that doesn't depend on individual drug success. As Initialized partner Zoe Perret noted, "This is a SaaS platform that pharma has to pay for, every single month, to go through all of these potential candidates."

The platform could democratize advanced analytical techniques for researchers lacking resources or expertise. Crawford believes the software will help research groups "get a quick, simple answer out of mass spec" without opening "a whole can of worms," enabling them to focus on their core research objectives rather than getting bogged down in complex data interpretation.

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Google introduces AI-powered Chrome features for enterprise users

Google turns Chrome into an AI co-worker for the workplace

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Google announced new AI-powered "auto browse" capabilities for Chrome enterprise users, allowing Gemini to understand browser context and handle tasks like booking travel, data entry, and scheduling meetings. The feature requires human approval before executing actions.

Available initially to U.S. Workspace users, the tool aims to automate tedious tasks while keeping humans in control. Google is also expanding security features to detect unsanctioned AI tools and browser threats, positioning itself as the preferred enterprise AI solution while blocking competitors.

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⚡ Trends for the Future

Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Google splits eighth-generation TPUs into training and inference chips.

Google Cloud unveiled its eighth generation of custom-built AI chips on Wednesday, marking a strategic shift by splitting its tensor processing units (TPUs) into two specialized variants. The TPU 8t targets model training, while the TPU 8i focuses on inference operations that occur when users submit prompts to AI models.

The new TPUs deliver impressive performance improvements over previous generations, offering up to three times faster AI model training and 80% better performance per dollar. Perhaps most notably, Google claims these chips can scale to connect over one million TPUs in a single cluster, promising significantly more computing power while consuming less energy and reducing costs for customers.

However, Google's latest chips don't represent a direct challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market. Like other major cloud providers including Microsoft and Amazon, Google plans to use these TPUs as supplements to, rather than replacements for, Nvidia-based systems. Google has even committed to offering Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chip later this year.

The competition landscape remains complex, as chip market analyst Patrick Moorhead noted on social media. He had previously predicted in 2016 that Google's first TPU could threaten Nvidia's position, yet Nvidia has since grown into a nearly $5 trillion company, proving such predictions premature.

Interestingly, Google and Nvidia are collaborating despite their competitive relationship. The companies are working together to enhance Falcon, Google's open-source software-based networking technology launched in 2023, to improve Nvidia system performance within Google's cloud infrastructure.

While hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft continue developing proprietary AI chips, Nvidia's strategic positioning suggests it may benefit from the overall growth in cloud-based AI services, even as some workloads migrate to custom chips. The future may see reduced dependence on Nvidia, but for now, betting against the chip giant remains a risky proposition.

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