# Geodesic Intelligence releases NovaAtom-Lite biomolecule model for drug discovery

> Original title: Former ByteDance AI scientist touts drug-discovery model that tops world leaders

- Source: South China Morning Post · Tech
- Published: 2026-11-12T10:00:14.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/p82lkye0bfdo79tqi1djoefch
- Original: https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3374201/former-bytedance-ai-scientist-touts-drug-discovery-model-tops-world-leaders

## Summary

Geodesic Intelligence, founded by former ByteDance AI scientist Quanquan Gu, has released NovaAtom-Lite, a life sciences AI model that predicts biomolecule structures and interactions. Gu said on social media on Wednesday that the model topped a third-party benchmark on several drug discovery tasks, including FoldBench.