The multi-stage drive to create a next-generation computing system will support a new pathogen research center that promises to create 7,500 jobs and advance biomedicine.
The approach applies deep learning and could potentially be used to identify people with early-stage disease when therapies may have more of an effect.
Under their 10-year partnership, IBM will install an early instance of its Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic to promote AI-driven life sciences discovery.
The companies initially plan to expand the commercialization of Sophia's DDM analytics platform and Hitachi's digital healthcare technology in certain geographic areas.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and wife Wendy Schmidt donated $150 million to endow the center, which will convene international academic and commercial collaborators.
Reuters reports that France is to recommend that people under 55 who received one dose of AstraZeneca's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine receive a different vaccine for their second dose.
