The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus its efforts on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal.

The philanthropic mission created in 2016 by the Meta co-founder and his spouse, Priscilla Chan, said that its scientific teams will now be centralized in an organization dubbed Biohub.

"This is a pivotal moment in science, and the future of AI-powered scientific discovery is starting to come into view," Biohub said in a blog post.

"We believe that it will be possible in the next few years to create powerful AI systems that can reason about and represent biology to accelerate science."

Biohub envisions AI helping advance ways to detect, prevent and cure dis

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