Accelerating drug discovery with generative AI: Aa paradigm shift in pharmaceutical innovation and development

Kandregula, Narendra (2025) Accelerating drug discovery with generative AI: Aa paradigm shift in pharmaceutical innovation and development. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 25 (3). pp. 1645-1658. ISSN 2581-9615

The clinical process to produce innovative medications generally spans over 10 years and billions of dollars from several businesses. The strength of computational chemistry and molecular modeling has improved nevertheless the conventional medical approaches deal with several important challenges due to their high failure numbers and their inability to find good medication candidates. The pharmaceutical business benefits from AI innovation through Generative AI since it offers a huge breakthrough in research capacity. Generative AI uses deep learning architectures VAEs GANs and Transformer-based systems to enable expedited drug discovery through quick chemical design and optimal drug characteristics alongside accurate biological interactions predictions. This research analyzes Generative AI's major influence on pharmaceutical science as it quickens the processes of identifying new medications. The application of AI models helps researchers to build new chemical structures while forecasting their medication performance behaviors and deliver more strong lead compounds at a better speed than old methodologies. Generative AI leads to the production of improved medication candidates with superior efficiency and decreased toxicity according to studies from Insilico Medicine and BenevolentAI and DeepMind’s AlphaFold. AI simulations offer automated drug screening combined with cost-efficient experimental approaches which boost the success rate of clinical trials. The clinical process to produce innovative medications generally spans over 10 years and billions of dollars from several businesses. The strength of computational chemistry and molecular modeling has improved nevertheless the conventional medical approaches deal with several important challenges due to their high failure numbers and their inability to find good medication candidates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) created new study opportunities in the pharmaceutical field while Generative AI stands as a revolutionary concept change. The deep learning algorithms known as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) along with Transformer-based models in Generative AI showcase impressive capabilities to expedite drug discovery by developing molecules swiftly and improving drug characteristics as well as accurately forecasting biological drug interactions. The material offered in this study examines Generative AI's use in pharmaceutical innovation with an emphasis on its capacity to speed up drug discovery processes. The application of AI-driven models enables scientists to generate new chemical structures which following prediction of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic features results in improved optimized lead compounds development rates beyond traditional methods. Generative AI leads to the production of improved medication candidates with superior efficiency and decreased toxicity according to studies from Insilico Medicine and BenevolentAI and DeepMind’s AlphaFold. AI simulations offer automated drug screening combined with cost-efficient experimental approaches which boost the success rate of clinical trials.