Sapio Sciences and Ultima Genomics announced a strategic partnership integrating Sapio’s AI-powered lab informatics platform with Ultima’s high-throughput, low-cost sequencing solutions to streamline multi-omics workflows. This integration promises to accelerate genomic and clinical research by facilitating end-to-end data management, analysis, and automation. Separately, Sophont AI secured $9.2 million to develop open-source multimodal medical foundation models, aiming to democratize advanced AI applications in specialized medical data workflows. These moves reflect growing industry momentum leveraging AI to expedite biotherapeutic development and precision medicine.