Nvidia, Eli Lilly to spend $1 billion over five years on joint research lab

Nvidia and US pharma giant ‍Eli Lilly will spend $1 billion building a new joint research lab in ⁠the San Francisco Bay area over five years which will use Nvidia’s newest generation Vera Rubin AI chips, the firms said on Monday.

The announcement ‌at the ‌start of a weeklong JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco comes just months after Zepbound ‌maker Lilly said it is building a supercomputer using more than 1,000 of Nvidia’s current generation Grace Blackwell AI chips.