Isomorphic Labs
Mentioned in 8 analyzed podcast episodes across 8 shows
A DeepMind spinoff company focused on AI-driven drug discovery and therapeutic development, leveraging proprietary versions of AlphaFold technology to tackle disease targets and accelerate pharmaceutical research. The company has partnered with major pharmaceutical firms like Novartis to apply its AI models to previously undruggable targets, and has demonstrated significant performance improvements on key drug discovery benchmarks. Podcasters discuss Isomorphic Labs as a notable example of how foundational AI research is being commercialized for real-world biomedical applications.
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Episode Mentions
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Feb 19, 2026
Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | #232
“DeepMind subsidiary working on AI-driven scientific discovery and protein design”
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Feb 18, 2026
Josh Kushner - Concentration and Conviction - [Invest Like the Best, EP.459]
“AI company spun out from DeepMind with Thrive support; focused on drug discovery and disease curing”
The a16z Show · Feb 16, 2026
Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company
“AI company partnering with Novartis on undruggable targets using AlphaFold3”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 14, 2026
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
“Announced predictive model doubling AlphaFold 3 performance on key drug discovery benchmarks”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 12, 2026
🔬Beyond AlphaFold: How Boltz is Open-Sourcing the Future of Drug Discovery
“DeepMind spinoff that kept AlphaFold 3 proprietary for commercial drug discovery applications”
My First Million · Jan 19, 2026
Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Nov 28, 2025
AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
“Using AlphaFold for drug design and small molecule discovery; applying structure prediction to therapeutic development”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 23, 2025
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
“Spun out from DeepMind to apply AlphaFold-like systems to drug discovery and chemistry”