What's Your Number?

Is AI Drug Discovery Finally Here? - with Daphne Koller

Episode Notes

📈Our WYNDEX (What’s Your Number Index) update for today:

Markets were up this week, but the WYNDEX slipped again. Yonatan and Yael break down the biggest movers, including Nova leading the pack and monday.com falling to the bottom, plus what the Fed shakeup and a sudden drop in gold and silver signaled to investors.

🔎 Our Long Play Yonatan and Yael are joined by Daphne Koller, CEO and founder of insitro and co-founder of Coursera, for a wide-ranging conversation on insitro’s acquisition of CombinAble.AI. They explore why drug discovery still has a 90% failure rate, how AI can help uncover entirely new biological targets, what it takes to turn targets into real medicines, and why Israel’s talent ecosystem matters at the intersection of AI and biology.

This episode was sponsored by SAPIR: Sign up for the SAPIR journal at sapirjournal.org/whatsyournumber

01:00 - Numbers of the Week

05:00 - The Wyndex

10:40 - Big Short #1: Apple acquires Israeli startup Q.ai

14:40 - Big Short #2: United Nations financial crunch and global credibility

19:20 - Long Play: Daphne Koller on AI drug discovery

42:40 - Words of the Week

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CREDITS:

Hosts - YONATAN ADIRI & YAEL WISSNER-LEVY

Executive Producer - ADAAM JAMES LEVIN-AREDDY

Production Manager - BRITTANY COHEN

Sound and Video editing - MARTIN HUERGO AND PATRICIO SPADAVECCHIA

Music - MIDNIGHT GENERATION