NVIDIA and Eli Lilly Announce $1 Billion AI Drug Discovery Co-Innovation Lab

Summary

On January 12, 2026, at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, NVIDIA and Eli Lilly announced a first-of-its-kind AI co-innovation lab with up to $1 billion in combined investment over five years in talent, infrastructure, and compute. The lab, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will co-locate Lilly domain experts in biology, science, and medicine alongside NVIDIA AI model builders and engineers to develop AI models that accelerate drug discovery and development. The lab's infrastructure will