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The Basel-based pharmaceutical group Roche is pressing ahead with its digital strategy and setting new benchmarks for the industry. Together with NVIDIA, the company is building an “AI factory” that will become the largest computing infrastructure ever announced by a pharma company. In the race among pharma majors, Roche has now overtaken the supercomputer recently unveiled by Eli Lilly.

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Depending on who you talk to, artificial intelligence (AI) is either a saviour or an enslaver. The concerns range from loss of jobs through to robots running society. However, in the life sciences, the use of AI and machine learning (ML) have created some excitement over their potential applications.