"AI Drug Discovery Platform TandemViz Joins Phoenix's SkyNet, Revolutionizing Access and Costs"

Phoenix, a decentralized AI compute network, has partnered with TandemAI, a leading AI drug discovery technology firm, to deploy TandemAI's state-of-the-art AI drug discovery platform, TandemViz, on Phoenix's AI compute layer, SkyNet. This collaboration will enable a custom, lightweight version of the platform to run on SkyNet's AI node network, allowing research organizations, labs, and pharmaceutical companies to utilize the system at zero cost and scale usage with significantly reduced costs.

AI drug discovery is a rapidly evolving field that has transformed clinical research and drug R&D by significantly lowering costs and development timelines. The partnership between Phoenix and TandemAI is notable for its business model innovation, making a high-cost, computationally intensive AI solution accessible to smaller entities such as individual researchers and labs. This integration is also unprecedented in the decentralized AI and DePIN space, as it deploys a critical use-case industry solution on decentralized architecture.

The partnership is also relevant to the burgeoning DeSci (decentralized science) space, as it can be enhanced and complemented by infusing industry-specific AI research tools. This broadens the scope of value delivered by DeSci players and opens up possibilities for DeSci DAOs to provide grants and funding for particular causes, subsidizing AI and computing infrastructure as well as software to advance research.

TandemAI, founded by industry veteran Lanny Sun, is one of the fastest-growing AI drug discovery firms. With over 350 employees and 50 award-winning AI and computational chemist scientists, TandemAI serves over 80 large pharmaceutical clients worldwide. Phoenix, an AI DePIN network for vertical industry applications, offers a highly scalable, low-waste, high-utilization compute layer that supports non-Nvidia-based edge computing and traditional high-performance GPU for AI. Backed by the $20 million Phoenix AI Ecosystem Fund, Phoenix accelerates innovation by fostering projects and applications within its growing AI ecosystem.