First Foundation Labs (1FL), a life sciences AI company spun out of Luma Group, announced on Tuesday a collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to accelerate the development and enterprise deployment of its reasoning platform through Microsoft Discovery, an enterprise AI platform on Azure for accelerating scientific research, R&D, and advanced scientific computing.

1FL is building AI systems purpose-built for reasoning in life sciences, bringing together clinical, translational, and cross-domain intelligence into a unified reasoning platform.

According to 1FL Microsoft Discovery empowers life science R&D teams with capabilities across advanced knowledge reasoning and hypothesis formulation to experimental simulation and iterative learning. 1FL extends those capabilities into the clinical and translational domain, giving life science teams a continuous intelligence layer that spans the full spectrum of drug development, from early discovery through commercialisation.