That is the future imagined by Singapore-headquartered start-up Cortical Labs, which received a US$10 million (S$13.4 million) investment from venture capitalists to commercialise its patented biological intelligence operating system and release a run of prototypes by 2024.
The funding round was led by billionaire Li Ka-Shing's Horizons Ventures. The Hong Kong venture capital firm has put its money in Al projects including DeepMind, which famously beat a human at the game Go. Other investors include Australia's leading venture capital fund Blackbird Ventures, the venture capital arm of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's In-Q-Tel, and US-based LifeX Ventures.
The funding will help four-year-old Cortical Labs commercialise a new computer system to help discover drugs and other AI applications, founder and chief executive Hon Weng Chong, 35, told The Straits Times.
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