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Isomorphic Labs in Talks for About $5 Billion in Funding

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Alphabet Inc.’s Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise roughly $5 billion in new funds to support its efforts to use artificial intelligence for drug discovery, according to people familiar with the…

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