{"slug": "former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders", "title": "Former ByteDance AI scientist touts drug-discovery model that tops world leaders", "summary": "Geodesic Intelligence, founded by former ByteDance AI scientist Quanquan Gu, released NovaAtom-Lite, a biomolecular structure and interaction prediction model that the firm says topped a third-party benchmark across several drug-discovery tasks, Gu said on social media on Wednesday. The model's results on FoldBench were cited as evidence it outperforms state-of-the-art systems, intensifying competition in AI-driven drug discovery.", "body_md": "A former ByteDance artificial intelligence scientist’s new venture has released a life sciences AI model that the firm claims outperforms state-of-the-art systems, intensifying the increasingly crowded competition in AI-driven drug discovery.\nGeodesic Intelligence’s NovaAtom-Lite, an AI model designed to predict the structures and interactions of biomolecules, topped a third-party benchmark in several drug discovery tasks, founder Quanquan Gu said on social media on Wednesday.\nOn the FoldBench...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3374201/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-tops-world-leaders", "published_at": "2026-11-12 10:00:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-12 10:22:39.964527+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-startups", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["Geodesic Intelligence", "NovaAtom-Lite", "Quanquan Gu", "ByteDance", "FoldBench"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-that-tops-world-leaders.jsonld"}}