#8: IntelliFold - An Open Biomolecular Structural Foundation Model

Date and Time

• Date: Friday, October 23, 2026

• Time: 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT+8)

• Location: Online @ Zoom Webinar 

Event Details

Join AI4Life for a technical webinar exploring IntelliFold, an open biomolecular structural foundation model. The session will introduce biomolecular structure prediction, explain how IntelliFold works, and present headline FoldBench results, including how IntelliFold performs on antibody–antigen and protein–ligand targets. It will also cover the techniques behind v2, how to interpret the model's predictions, and the roadmap for next-generation models and downstream applications.

This webinar will be hosted by Quynh Nguyen from AI4Life Team. The session format includes topic framing, a technical presentation by Lifeng Qiao, a live Vecura demonstration showing IntelliFold in action, followed by an interactive live Q&A session.

Speaker Information
Featured speaker: Lifeng Qiao, Research Engineer at IntelliGen AI and PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lifeng Qiao is a Research Engineer at IntelliGen AI, a startup building biomolecular foundation models for drug discovery. He is also a PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Wanli Ouyang. He has spent the past two years at IntelliGen AI building IntelliFold and the applications around it, and he is a contributor to FoldBench, an open benchmark for all-atom biomolecular structure prediction. His research interests are scalable architectures and training methods for biomolecular structure modelling and their use in drug discovery.

What you will learn

• The fundamentals of biomolecular structure prediction, and how IntelliFold's architecture, inputs, and outputs work

• How IntelliFold performs on FoldBench, and the techniques behind v2: latent-space scaling of the pair representation, stochastic atomization with an atom-level distogram, and custom GPU kernels for efficient training

• How to interpret what IntelliFold learns and read its predictions, plus the roadmap for next-generation models and downstream applications

• A live demonstration of running IntelliFold natively within automated, no-code workflows on Vecura

Register now to join the live session and bring your questions for the discussion!