Digital & AI

We are an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives.

We aim to shorten the time between discovery to therapy by pioneering an innovative pipeline and executing transformative launches at scale. We are building and deploying AI-based solutions across our value chain responsibly, empowering our people with innovative technology, from research and development to manufacturing and patient engagement, to accelerate delivery to patients.

We are committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. Through digital innovation, we will chase faster, search deeper and solve sooner.
Emmanuel Frenehard

Emmanuel Frenehard

EVP, Chief Digital Officer

To Achieve Our AI Ambition, We Are Building on 3 Pillars:

Expert AI

Expert AI empowers our teams with massive computing power, machine learning and trained algorithms, to accelerate the pace of discovery, development, and delivery. This supports specific skills in data science, biology, and engineering to solve complex problems, especially across Research & Development and Manufacturing & Supply.

Snackable AI

Snackable AI refers to AI applications that everyone in our organization can use in their daily workflow, democratizing data and offering insights and recommendations that enable teams to make better decisions and allocate resources more efficiently, resulting in better outcomes for patients.

Generative AI

Generative AI  (or GenAI), helps us streamline processes, relieving the burden of time-consuming, non-value-added tasks to free up time to focus on creativity, better decision-making and improve productivity across our value chain.

How Are Digital and AI Supporting Our Value Chain?

Research and Development

R&D activities are greatly supported with advanced AI, machine learning and data integration to transform the discovery process by improving the efficacy of our trials and identifying new indications for existing assets in development.

Our Target Discovery engines combine advanced AI, machine learning and data integration with experimental techniques for target validation to help us unravel disease biology and uncover new targets. So far, the engines have delivered seven novel drug targets in just one year. #ExpertAI

We’re developing breakthrough AI, such as deep learning and large language models to transform the discovery process of large molecules and biologics. We're changing the way we research with a focus on antibodies and Nanobodies. #ExpertAI

Our scientists are developing mRNA-based vaccines and therapies faster than ever with CodonBERT, our large language model pre-trained on 10 million mRNA sequences, which has cut down mRNA design time by 50%. #ExpertAI

Manufacturing and Supply

Our M&S capabilities enable faster delivery of innovative medicines and vaccines. Our launch units are setting new benchmarks, accelerating time-to-market by twelve months for our priority pipeline molecules, enabling faster delivery of life-changing treatments.

With SimplY, our AI-powered yield analytics platform, our M&S teams are spending less time crunching data and more time taking action based on data insights. SimplY learns from past and current batch performance to enable consistently higher yield, which not only gets treatments to patients faster, but also supports improved cost efficiency and contributes to our environmental objectives. #ExpertAI

The adoption of plai within our Manufacturing & Supply teams has demonstrated the ability to predict 80% of stock disruptions through probabilistic planning, correlating 65% of risks with a root cause and enabling teams to take proactive mitigating actions and secure supply. #SnackableAI

We have rolled out our fully digitized Sanofi Modulus facilities in Singapore and in Neuville, France to enable more responsive and flexible manufacturing across multiple vaccine and biological platforms including mRNA, while keeping in line with our ambition toward net zero emissions by 2045. #ExpertAI

Corporate and Commercial

Concierge is Sanofi’s internally hosted GenAI companion, designed to streamline daily tasks like answering questions, navigate tools and automate tasks, and guide Sanofians through their day with less effort and more ease. #GenAI #SnackableAI

Today, 20,000 Sanofians use plai every day—our industry-leading app that delivers real-time, reactive data interactions and provides a 360° view across all company activities. #SnackableAI

Our Commercial teams are using Turing to unlock personalized engagement with healthcare providers. Powered by data and machine learning, Turing provides recommendations for the next best action: what to communicate, when to communicate it, and through which channel. #ExpertAI

We are putting AI in the hands of every Sanofian and fostering a company-wide mindset shift that not only familiarizes our colleagues with AI, but also instills a culture of curiosity and creativity in our teams as they work to make the impossible possible.

Explore More

Partner with Us

We’re on the way to becoming the leading digital healthcare platform for patients, providers, payers, and researchers. We’re interested in partnering on scalable digital platforms that can shorten the diagnostic journey and provide care for both common chronic diseases and those that require specialty care. 

Responsible AI at Sanofi for Everyone (RAISE)

Responsible AI at Sanofi for Everyone or RAISE underpins our Responsible AI Strategy. We recognize the importance of exploring and advancing AI responsibly, balancing innovation with the right level of risk management.

Artifical Intelligence in R&D

Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform how we discover, develop, and deliver therapies. It can help us provide better care at lower cost and empower people to manage their disease.