Geodesic Intelligence releases NovaAtom-Lite biomolecule model for drug discovery

Geodesic Intelligence, a startup 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 that the model topped a third-party benchmark on several drug discovery tasks, including FoldBench. The company claims the model outperforms state-of-the-art systems, according to the South China Morning Post's report. The launch adds to competition among AI tools for drug discovery.