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🤖 The $276 Million Supercomputer Developing New Drugs

PLUS: Tencent Turns Text or Images Into Detailed 3D Objects, OpenAI’s $500 Billion American AI Infrastructure Project

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In today’s Daily Report:

  • 🧊Tencent Turns Text or Images Into Detailed 3D Objects

  • 🔬The $276 Million Supercomputer Developing New Drugs

  • 👷OpenAI’s $500 Billion American AI Infrastructure Project

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  • 💰Funding Frontlines

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

TENCENT

🧊Tencent Turns Text or Images Into Detailed 3D Objects

Image Source: Tencent/“Hunyuan3D-1.0: A Unified Framework for Text-to-3D and Image-to-3D Generation”/Screenshot

Tencent Introduced “Hunyuan3D 2.0,” an AI model that turns text or images into detailed 3D objects in seconds.

Key Details:
  • It features two main components:

    1. Hunyuan3D-DiT: Creates basic shapes like cubes, spheres, or pyramids.

    2. Hunyuan3D-Paint: Adds surface details like bumps, scratches, or wrinkles.

  • “Hunyuan3D 2.0” uses a Feed-Forward Framework, which processes data in one direction from input to output, just like an assembly line.

  • It also generates multiple 2D views of an input. Then, it combines those 2D views to generate a high-quality 3D object that’s perfect from every angle.

Why It’s Important:
  • We possess the ability to create 3D illustrations from 2D information. This ability allows us to infer form, depth, and motion from flat images. For example, when shopping for new clothes online, we can imagine what they’d look like on us.

  • AI models don’t possess the same luxury because they lack contextual understanding inherent to humans. “Hunyuan3D 2.0” is trying to replicate this ability.

AI RESEARCH

🔬The $276 Million Supercomputer Developing New Drugs

Image Source: University of Bristol (“UoB”)/techSPARK*/“Professor Simon Mclntosh-Smith”/Screenshot

The University of Bristol (“UoB”) recently unveiled Isambard-AI, a $276 million supercomputer that leverages AI systems to develop new drugs.

Key Details:
  • It relies on 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips to simulate drug interactions down to the molecular level.

  • For instance, Isambard-AI predicts the structure of all of life’s molecules by analyzing a broad spectrum of Biomolecules: DNA, RNA, and Target Proteins.

  • When fully operational this summer, Isambard-AI will rank among the world’s top ten fastest supercomputers.

Why It’s Important:
  • Imagine a scenario where scientists develop a new drug to combat a disease. They know if they inhibit a Target Protein in the human body, it could alleviate the symptoms of this disease.

  • However, designing the drug molecule that can bind to this Target Protein is a complex challenge. Isambard-AI can map out the Target Protein, enabling scientists to find binding sites for the drug molecule.

OPENAI

👷OpenAI’s $500 Billion American AI Infrastructure Project

Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

OpenAI just announced “The Stargate Project,” a new company set to spend $500 billion over the next four years building AI infrastructure in America.

It will “secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.” The initial equity founders in “The Stargate Project” include Oracle, SoftBank Group Corp., and MGX.

America’s aging power grid is ill-equipped to handle the sudden surge in energy consumption from AI projects. For context, new data centers demanded 195 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity last year. That’s as much electricity as 18 million households per year. By 2027, new data centers could require 500 TWh, or 46 million households, worth of electricity.

“The Stargate Project” will help implement power grid upgrades that promote nuclear power as a stable, cost-effective energy source offering “continuous energy output.”

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • Borderless AI raises a $32M Seed Round to deploy AI Agents that tackle HR tasks.

  • Metropolis acquires Oosto for $125M to build a better AI-powered parking platform.

  • Vertice secures a $50M Series C to help businesses source, inspect, purchase, and receive goods and services.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

  • iCapital (New York, NY): Data Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • SoFi (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

  • Neuralink (Austin, TX): Software Engineer Intern, Lab Systems, Summer 2025

  • Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Embedded Software Engineer Intern, Firmware Platforms, Summer 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Graphics Architect, Hardware, New College Grad 2025

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