On 3 December the final of the “Computing Power Town Cup” Create@ computing power applications competition, jointly hosted by Linping New City and Alibaba Cloud, was held in Hangzhou. Westlake Pharmaceuticals performed strongly, reached the final and won an innovation breakthrough award.
The competition was organised around five themes — computing power with new consumer services, advanced manufacturing, culture and entertainment, healthcare, and diversified development — and set out to find high-tech founders, teams and companies across China. More than 380 projects applied and 20 reached the final.
One overall champion, four innovation breakthrough awards and 15 application innovation awards were presented at a ceremony on 4 December.
In the final, 20 project representatives presented in turn. Dr. Lin Song, an AI drug design scientist at Westlake Pharmaceuticals, represented the company with “High-performance computing to accelerate drug discovery”.
Innovative drug development typically means long timelines, high investment and high risk; AI offers a new way to address that. Dr. Lin Song explained how Westlake Pharmaceuticals brings AI into the whole discovery workflow to save time and cost, and what that work has delivered so far.
The presentation showed both research strength and growth potential, and drew strong recognition from the jury.
The event was as much an exchange as a competition: participating companies showed their results and shared hard-won experience, giving AI in the public imagination a clearer face.
Westlake Pharmaceuticals will keep exploring what deep integration of AI and drug discovery can do, working with industry pioneers to speed up industrial upgrading.