BMS Deploys NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin Systems to Accelerate AI-Powered R&D

Editor’s Take: BMS’s investment in AI-powered research comes as pharmaceutical companies across the industry invest in similar technologies. Learn about the role of AI in drug discovery.

Bristol Myers Squibb has announced plans to deploy an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, giving its scientific and computational teams access to the latest in computational power and efficiency, and enabling BMS to pursue larger and more sophisticated AI workloads without a proportional increase in energy consumption.

The investment builds on nearly three years of collaboration that began when BMS first deployed NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD infrastructure to support its Research and Development activities, and marks the next step in expanding that foundation to match the growing scope and sophistication of BMS’s AI-driven scientific programs across oncology, hematology, cardiovascular, immunology and neuroscience.

“BMS has made a deliberate bet on AI, and we are beginning to see it pay off in our pipeline and operations,” said Greg Meyers, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb. “We’re committed to translating AI into real outcomes for patients which requires infrastructure built to match that ambition. Expanding our compute capabilities with NVIDIA gives our researchers and teams across the business the scale they need to keep BMS at the leading edge of what AI can do for drug discovery & development.”

Robert Plenge, Executive Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, added, “This infrastructure lets us learn from every experiment and every clinical readout to sharpen the next hypothesis, allowing BMS scientists to spend less time on manual work and more time on the questions that require human judgment. The goal isn’t speed for its own sake; it’s raising the probability that each program we advance is the right one.”

The expanded agreement advances BMS’s vision of hybrid intelligence, a model of scientific work where AI co-scientists and human researchers operate in close coordination, with AI systems handling the execution of complex, data-intensive tasks while scientists focus on direction, interpretation, and the decisions that require deep human expertise. The Vera Rubin cluster will serve as the computational backbone for this vision, supporting the development of next-generation foundation models trained on BMS’s decades of proprietary data and, where the science calls for it, drawing on domain-specific capabilities from BioNeMo, NVIDIA’s platform for biological AI, while powering the agentic workflows that allow researchers to evaluate hypotheses at a scale that would have been unachievable just a few years ago.

“BMS has built decades of extraordinary scientific knowledge across some of the most complex areas of human disease,” said Rory Kelleher, Senior Director of Business Development, Healthcare and Life Sciences at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA Vera Rubin and BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, BMS has the ability to transform that enterprise scientific data into proprietary intelligence and give agents domain-specific tooling that help scientists explore biology, design molecules and evaluate hypotheses at unprecedented scale — reinventing how medicines are discovered and developed.”