Table 1 Biopharma companies and their internal AI programs : This table highlights key companies, AI partners, and their associated programs, emphasizing real-world applications in drug discovery, clinical trial management, personalized medicine, and more. It includes major platforms such as BenevolentAI, Insilico Medicine, DeepMind, and tools like AlphaFold that are shaping the biotechnology landscape

From: Unlocking the potential: multimodal AI in biotechnology and digital medicine—economic impact and ethical challenges

Biopharmaceutical Firm

AI Partner/Technology

AI Program Name

Focus Area

Key Details

Pfizer

IBM Watson and GNS Healthcare

Pfizer AI

Drug discovery and development

Uses AI to optimize molecular design and streamline clinical trials

Roche

PathAI and Tempus

AI Pathway Explorer

Personalized medicine

Focused on patient stratification and biomarker discovery

Novartis

Microsoft AI for Healthcare; internal AI platforms

Nerve

Clinical trial management

AI-driven clinical trial recruitment and predictive modeling

Johnson & Johnson

BenevolentAI and XtalPi

Janssen AI

Drug development

AI for molecule screening and toxicity prediction

AstraZeneca

BenevolentAI and DeepMind

AI BioPharma

Genomics and drug discovery

Leveraging AI for genomic data analysis to develop novel therapies

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Exscientia and Insilico Medicine

GSK.AI

Vaccine and therapeutic design

Focused on AI-driven vaccine optimization and novel therapeutic candidates

Sanofi

Recursion Pharmaceuticals and BioSymetrics

AI Health

Drug repurposing

Uses AI to identify new applications for existing drugs

Merck

Atomwise and Google Cloud AI

Merck AI Labs

Clinical trial insights

AI for improving trial design and real-time patient monitoring

Bayer

Blackford Analysis and Sensyne Health

LEAP AI

Drug discovery and crop sciences

Integrates AI in healthcare and agricultural solutions

AbbVie

AI startups like Iktos and Cytel

AbbVie AI

Antibody development

Focused on AI to design next-generation antibody-based therapies