Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this industry. Today in a special address, Kimberly Powell (pictured), vice president and general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Nvidia Corp., made the case that agentic AI is about to do for biotech what it just did for software — and the company’s BioNeMo is the stack that turns generic large language models into working “AI scientists” that are both faster and cheaper to run.