OpenAI, Perplexity and German drugmaker BioNTech and its London-based AI subsidiary InstaDeep have recently launched their own AI research tools, while Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has shown how the fast-developing technology can accelerate scientific research.

Google has developed an AI tool to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical scientists, the U.S. blue chip said on Wednesday. The new tool, tested by scientists at Stanford University in the U.S.