Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discovery

SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Alphabet’s Google and backed by Nvidia, on Wednesday released a trove of data it hopes will speed up the discovery of new medical treatments by helping scientists understand how drugs stick to proteins.

The goal is to help scientists predict whether a drug will bind to its target in the human body. But while the data is backed up by real-world scientific experiments, it did not come from a lab. Instead, SandboxAQ, which has raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital, generated the data using…