Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to fund an "App Store" for biotech scientists after launching a data center with 1,016 Blackwell chips in 2025 (Patrick Temple-West/Financial Times)

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Eli Lilly is funding a biotech AI app marketplace backed by a large Blackwell data center, signaling deeper pharma investment in AI tooling.

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d524396a-4986-46e9-9a93-a982e330d157"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260623/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260623/p2#a260623p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Patrick Temple-West / <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d524396a-4986-46e9-9a93-a982e330d157">Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to fund an &ldquo;App Store&rdquo; for biotech scientists after launching a data center with 1,016 Blackwell chips in 2025</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Mounjaro maker is collaborating with small biotechs on AI as a tool for drug discovery</p>