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2026
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November 2026 66 entries
- Gustave Roussy spin-out Orakl Oncology raises a $34M Series A, co-led by Norrsken VC and Singular, to predict cancer-drug trials from patients' tumour organoids
- Qingkui Zhizao, a Beijing maker of robotic chemistry labs, raises an A round of about 100M yuan to build a cloud lab that runs customers' experiments
- Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 predicts what DNA variants do cell type by cell type, and in immune cells finds about twice as many likely causal variants as its fine-tuned predecessor
- Ruhr University Bochum gives a Claude Code agent its crystal database, models and reaction graph, and the agent proposes candidate compounds with synthesis plans
- Cornell engineers let LLM agents write turbulence models and train them inside a differentiable flow solver, and the agents' models score better on their target than the standard ones
- Google puts Gemini 4 Carbon into Antigravity for Ultra subscribers, opens applications for free access for scientists, and previews agent teams
- Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code proved key security properties of libsignal's compiled code, in about 6.5 million lines of Lean
- Sahir Raoof, formerly of SignalFire, raises a $27.5 million debut fund, Proximal Ventures, for start-ups bringing AI to the tools and services behind drug development
- Lila Sciences' open-endedness team releases four preprints on getting AI models to generate new ideas and build on them
- IBM and Mitsubishi Chemical train a circuit-writing transformer on a 70-qubit IBM processor and run it on models of tin photoresists for EUV lithography
- Tushen Zhihe, an AI protein-design company, raises several hundred million yuan over two rounds, its Pre-A led by Shanghai Kechuang Group
- Google adds two TPU systems to its eighth generation: a dual-chip TPU 8i Max and a TPU 8tx with hardware confidential computing
- Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 with two physics preprints in which, it says, a Claude model solved two open problems about black holes
- Anthropic had Claude design three electronic devices, and Diode built the boards from its files with no round of changes
- Pierre Fabre signs XtalPi to design small-molecule drug candidates across several cancer programmes
- argenx agrees to buy Unnatural Products, which designs ring-shaped peptide drugs with machine learning and parallel chemistry, for $550 million upfront and up to about $1.15 billion
- Shanghai Jiao Tong and NTU researchers test eleven AI models on alloy lab reasoning: calculations from given data score above 92%, estimates of a material's state 23% to 31%
- Carnegie Mellon's AI agents propose a 13-parameter density functional that lowers ωB97M-V's held-out error by 11.7% in self-consistent calculations
- Pushmeet Kohli says Google DeepMind is seeing a phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery, and that its releases over the next few weeks will give a glimpse of it
- Qingxi Zhiyan, a Beijing start-up putting AI into materials instruments, raises nearly 100M yuan in an angel round backed by GL Ventures and AgiBot
- Lawrence Livermore's new atomic force model for fusion wall alloys comes close to the accuracy of models ten times its size and runs tens of times faster
- University of Delaware's two-agent setup rewrites chemistry codes and cuts the time PySCF spends on the excited-state step by 84 to 94%
- Cancer Grand Challenges funds Harvard's AURORA AI co-scientist, and three of its teams start testing it in their own research
- Kos Biotechnology Partners joins Fathom Therapeutics' Series A, which the company now puts at $55M, up from the $47M it announced in April
- Cornell physicists turn a pretrained atomic model into a crystal designer that changes elements and structure together, and 39 of 45 new superconductor designs picked for full checks compute above 10 K
- South China University of Technology trains one model on 78,889 glass compositions, failures included, to predict which form glass across oxide, chalcogenide, halide and metallic glasses
- Third Rock Ventures signs Funnel Biosciences to design antibodies with AI against targets Third Rock picks, for up to about $2.16 billion
- OpenAI and Ligo's BioBasicsBench scores AI agents on 100 tasks built from real wet-lab data, and GPT-6 Astra earns 66.7% of the points
- George Church resigns from Radical Numerics after its AI-designed phage announcement did not name Tabula, the partner that ran the lab work
- Anthropic's economics team sorts 207,000 research sessions on Claude: scientists use it most to analyse data and write, least to gather data and form ideas
- Discovered Materials offers up to $1M in prizes for five unsolved problems in materials physics and chemistry
- Google Research's model reads a Pixel Watch's pulse and motion signals to flag hypertension, finding 66% of cases in a 196-person study checked against 24-hour cuff monitoring
- Potential Sciences, founded by Hatem Helal in Cambridge, comes out of stealth with an eight-figure seed backed by the UK's Sovereign AI fund and Twin Path Ventures
- Chai Discovery signs Roche to use its protein design models in a number of Roche's drug discovery programmes
- Ginkgo Bioworks reports its first sale of an autonomous lab to a large drugmaker, Novo, at Novo's new Waltham research site
- Astellas signs on to use Iktos's molecule design and synthesis-planning software, Makya and Spaya
- Inductive Bio's models rank first in OpenADMET's blind test of predicting how strongly 750 compounds block four drug-metabolising enzymes
- University of Maryland's PolyGPT, told to make its polymers electrolyte-like, returns under half as many distinct ones that hit a temperature target
- A team from USTC and Hefei's Institute of Artificial Intelligence built DP-Learner, which predicts materials' electronic Hamiltonians with 33-41% less error than the team's earlier NextHAM
- Haixu Wu's TensorWorld raises a $105M seed to build a physics foundation model
- Anthropic's biology lab builds vault shells from phage and bacterial proteins in E. coli and maps one at 3.2 angstroms
- Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise about $5B at a valuation of about $50B, Bloomberg reports
- Axiom Math turns the whole Stacks Project, the open reference for modern algebraic geometry, into one Lean library of about 16 million lines
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University's AutoDNA has AI agents run a DNA lab of more than 20 instrument types, with people only restocking reagents and servicing hardware
- A USTC team's open RNA model, structRFM, learns from 21 million sequence-structure pairs and predicts RNA 3D structure on par with AlphaFold3 in CASP tests
- UCB signs Cradle to use its protein design platform in selected antibody discovery projects, from first hits to preclinical candidates
- Speciale Invest leads a $2.7M pre-seed in Venomics AI, an IISc spin-out sequencing Indian venoms and screening their peptides against human targets
- UC San Diego's RobPicker beats the top entries of a Kaggle cryo-ET challenge at picking small, rare proteins out of cryo-electron tomograms
- NVIDIA releases ALCHEMI Toolkit 0.3, which can distill large chemistry and materials models into small ones
- Tencent's Hy team releases HyCell for single-cell data and HyPDE for physics simulations as open models, alongside Hy4
- Edison Scientific reports Kosmos matched 83% of the follow-up experiments Incyte's review committee asked for on six drug targets
- Ghent's test of eight AI models that read peptides straight from mass spectra finds most of their errors come from spectra missing key fragments, whichever model reads them
- Entegris buys a diamond-abrasives maker and partners with De Beers' Element Six to make materials that pull heat out of stacked AI chips
- Google DeepMind adds chemistry skills built on RDKit to Antigravity, and shows an agent redesigning a lung-cancer drug
- Scinetics writes protein structures as 8,192 discrete tokens and reports a language model above AlphaFold 3's published protein-protein score
- OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a small device's enclosure, circuit board and firmware, and a contract manufacturer built prototypes
- Peking University's FoldScape generates protein shapes at a chosen stage of folding, and its sets span about an order of magnitude more of the folding path than AlphaFold 3 run with different seeds
- 10x Genomics releases Sentira Single Cell, an agent built on Claude that analyses Chromium single-cell data from a question in plain language
- MIT's Hardness Group treats ETH as refuted and moves lower bounds onto the 1990 Satisfiability Hypothesis, which it proves equal to Weak ETH
- Johns Hopkins researchers find language models recover more materials they were never shown when more of their training facts appear only once
- Nanyang Technological University has AI agents redo 59 published results in computational quantum science, and Claude Code with Opus 5.5 reproduces about 93%
- Deep Principle releases Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight 753-billion-parameter model for chemistry, materials and life sciences, post-trained from GLM-5.3
- UCL spin-out Octopath AI raises a £1 million seed led by Twin Path Ventures, plus a matched £500,000 Innovate UK grant
- Isomorphic's president Max Jaderberg says it does not sell access to its models: it earns from pharma deals and funds its own drugs
- Recursion reports REC-4881 cut polyp burden by a median 47% in 15 patients with an inherited polyp disease, and 11 of 13 stayed below baseline 12 weeks after stopping
- Joseph Shunia and GPT-6 Astra build a deterministic primality test on a theorem that extends OpenAI's own zero-free result
October 2026 251 entries
- Fabio Dias and Yvens Lima work out the constants OpenAI's ETH proof leaves out: its proof certifies no speed-up over brute force on any bounded-density formula that could be written down
- BigHat finds that giving an antibody-design agent its tools makes it follow instructions better and optimise worse
- Princeton and Edison Scientific's ChefNMR2 agent works out the structures of four unreported natural products from simple NMR spectra
- Recursion appoints Fred Hassan, former head of Schering-Plough and Pharmacia, as chair of its board
- AlphaFold 3's open-source code gets a speed release, v3.0.5: Jackhmmer search about 2.5x faster, over 10x on a 24-core machine
- In a Zelinsky Institute test with 60 example molecules per task, GPT-6 Astra predicted five chemical properties better than eleven chemistry models
- An NTU search that learns as it goes finds the lowest-energy atom arrangement in disordered crystals in 94% of runs, against 55% for standard methods
- Quantum 3xplorer, a plane-wave DFT code written by AI coding agents under scientists' direction, matches Quantum ESPRESSO's energies and runs 1.2 to 5.3 times faster on one core
- Sogang and Ewha researchers use AlphaEvolve searches to find a family of entanglement-assisted quantum codes that, with a lifting step, closes 54 gaps in the published code tables, its construction checked in Lean
- Flagship merges the platforms of Cellarity, Etiome and Empress Therapeutics into Etcelera, an AI drug discovery company led by Adrian Rawcliffe
- ALLOX, a Barcelona spin-out co-founded by Ben Lehner, raises a $10.5M seed led by Asabys to find hidden control sites on hard drug targets
- EVENET, a model pretrained on 500 million simulated LHC collisions, finds the known Upsilon meson in real CMS data at 7.6 sigma, above the 6.4 sigma of the published method
- With analysis steps written by the researchers, 11 AI models processed a catalysis dataset that none finished without them, and the experiments they proposed were run
- Edison Scientific agrees with Pfizer to deploy its AI scientist Kosmos across Pfizer's research and development pipeline
- Mistral releases the open weights of Large 4, a trillion-parameter model, and reports a potential for uplift to help attacks on live targets
- Opentrons, with more than 11,000 pipetting robots deployed, raises a $40M Series E led by Avego to have AI run experiments on them
- Nomic Bio and Parse Biosciences start building Cascade, 100 million immune cells read for RNA with matching secreted-protein profiles, and GSK, Pfizer and Sanofi signed on
- A Wisconsin team's AI agents test findings from 121 single-cell cancer studies in other cancers, and a lung cancer risk signature they flag also tracks survival in three more
- PerturbMind, founded out of a Tongji University lab to model how cells respond to drugs, raises angel and angel-plus rounds of tens of millions of yuan led by Qingsong Capital
- Edison Scientific's EDB-Bio: asked how likely a biology hypothesis is given published results, frontier models score no better than a flat 50% guess; its trained Ibis0 model does better
- A machine-learning screen of two materials databases finds 33 compounds made years ago that fit the MXene pattern, and the team then makes 11 new rare-earth MXenes
- TU Dresden's Morpheus.AI agents build virtual tissue models for 15 published studies on their own, meeting 83-86% of the scoring criteria with GPT-6.1 Sol
- BioGeometry closes an A+ round led by China Life Capital, taking its A series past $100M for molecule and virtual-cell models
- Formation Bio, an AI drug developer, sets up a $600M fund of its own to buy and develop 10 to 15 clinical-stage drugs
- Anthropic extends its AI for Science credits to funders, institutes and projects, among them the NSF, the Sanger Institute, EMBL and gnomAD
- Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model built for cybersecurity, first to cyber defenders only and into the US government's pre-release testing
- Anthropic widens its free-credit AI for Science program from single researchers to funders, institutes and projects, the US National Science Foundation among them
- An AI agent at MIT runs a standard low-temperature measurement system on two quantum materials, choosing each next measurement and recovering from an instrument overload itself
- Toronto's El Agente Quntur agents pick the orbitals for 32 excited-state calculations and halve the error of the best fixed protocol against published references
- Crystoria adds a vibration stability check to 2.6 million crystals from five public databases and finds about two thirds of them stable
- Edison Scientific's writing model, trained only on real NIH grant abstracts, fools biomedical readers in 55% of side-by-side comparisons
- Basel's Atlas Bio raises a $10M seed led by Creandum to run drug trials on virtual patients before Phase II
- BigHat and Anthropic improve two antibody leads over seven rounds, after finding one thermal measure did not measure what its name said
- Generate:Biomedicines cuts a CAR's signalling tail to 45 amino acids, under a third of the clinical design, and reports stronger function
- Across its runs, Enveda's document reviewer raised all 11 issues human reviewers found in 1,061 pages of batch records, and 7 they had not
- Anthropic buys a one-person drug company and starts running drug programmes of its own
- A Claude-steered campaign designs 20 antibody arms that pull IgE off its receptor; of the eight titrated, three remove more than the approved drug does in the same assay and none clearly beats the parent
- DeepMind releases Genie 4 to trusted testers, a world model it pitches as a training environment for robots and agents
- Omabit raises a $2M seed led by Bright Ventures for an AI that analyses drug developers' own trial and genomic data
- Biographica's CROP-1 predicts a crop gene's activity in each tissue and condition from its DNA plus which regulators are on, and designs edits aimed at one context
- Singapore puts S$150 million into MARVEL-AI, an A*STAR platform that pairs materials AI models with self-driving labs, with CuspAI among its partners
- Crystal-structure prediction finds all seven solved forms of acridine among 15 picks, and of the machine-learned potentials tried, only one tuned on acridine gets their stability order right
- A normalizing flow computes the lattice free energies used to rank drug crystal forms, matching the standard method with about 2.5 times less computing time on average
- GlycoWeave, a diffusion model built for sugars, places glycans in protein pockets far more often than AlphaFold 3 on a 698-complex benchmark
- In an Anthropic trial, analysts working with Claude Code went with a lean secretly assigned to the agent on 86% of their analysis choices
- Lam Research widens its research partnership with imec to 3-D chip stacking and to its dry resist for the newest EUV lithography
- Leeds spinout adsilico raises a £10M Series A to test heart valves and stents on AI-built virtual patients
- Anthropic files to list as ANT and names scientific research and lab robotics among the new markets frontier AI may open
- A designed protein scaffold binds a metal photocatalyst, and five evolved mutations turn it into an enantioselective enzyme reaching 50,000 turnovers
- Texas A&M gets $2M to build a robot-run foundry that designs, melts and tests new metal alloys
- OpenAI and Anthropic each claim a subexponential 3-SAT algorithm refuting the Exponential Time Hypothesis, each checked in Lean, neither checked by anyone outside
- OpenAI arranged its examiners before announcing, and the group it arranged wrote to its field to say the involvement is not certification
- A claimed proof of the local smoothing conjecture in every dimension carries the Kakeya conjecture with it, where the published record had reached three dimensions
- POISK, 89,074 antibody-antigen records mined out of patents, asks whether structure models can pick the real binder: the best manages 72%
- ChronoSyn learns the order in which materials were first reported, and picks out real materials more often than the same model with the years shuffled
- Axiom Math's agents formalize the classification of finite simple groups in Lean: about 43 million lines in 24 days
- OpenAI says its models proved that four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics exist as rigorous mathematical theories, and leaves the release to a group led by David Gross
- A small add-on layer corrects a foundation interatomic model's melting points without retraining it: gold goes from 844 K to 1346 K, against 1337 K assessed
- Insilico's AI-designed TEAD inhibitor produced partial responses in 4 of 22 evaluable mesothelioma patients in its first human trial
- ByteDance Seed and Peking University build exact total spin into neural network wavefunctions, and resolve the spin ladders of iron-sulfur clusters
- The UK funds an AI Biosecurity Lab with £100m, alongside up to £200m in credits from OpenAI and Anthropic
- Calibrated uncertainty carries only unevenly out of distribution, and in active learning it mostly beats neither random sampling nor no calibration at all
- Pathos AI raises a $237M Series E led by Bristol Myers Squibb at about $3B, and takes its trial-steering AI from cancer into Alzheimer's with BMS and Tempus
- Xaira built a camera-guided arm for instruments made for human hands, and over seven days it loaded 18 plates into an HPLC, 80% more than its model of weekday hours
- Fudan's EdenGNN predicts charge density and the occupancies that go with it, so band structures come out at PAW accuracy
- Merging 55 crystal databases shows a MatterGen run's stiff hits all contain osmium, and 82 of 100 repeat known compositions
- Simulated coatings for a sulfide solid electrolyte are made and measured: the lithiated ones keep 40 to 55% of the initial ionic conductivity after processing
- AlphaGenome is turned on 17 million human-lineage substitutions and predicts 71,345 places where human gene regulation changed, nearly every fixed one older than the split from Neandertals
- Refining the reconstruction with a neural network recovers atom-by-atom electron tomography at a sixth of the electron dose, on one re-read tilt series
- Eleven ways of drawing cell boundaries in spatial transcriptomics are benchmarked side by side: none wins across tissues, and the choice changes which cell types and which cell-to-cell signals come out
- Iambic reports partial responses in 36% of 53 patients on its AI-designed HER2 drug, and in 9 of 22 whose tumours had spread to the brain
- Benchling has eight AI models plan 65 molecular cloning experiments, and the top scorer, GPT-6 Astra, gets 30.6% right
- Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former head of science, launches Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed, to build a US chemistry lab it plans to automate
- DeepMind maps the world's forests by type at 10 metres, as a baseline for the EU's deforestation rules
- Microsoft's MAI-DxO, a panel of AI agents that orders tests and revises its diagnosis, is published in Science: 83% on hard NEJM cases against 36% for generalist doctors
- Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open 14B model that answers questions about DNA in plain English and scores close to GPT-6.1 Sol on five DNA benchmarks
- Reflector Bio comes out of stealth with a model that predicts what a compound does to living cells, built by Yuge Ji in Fabian Theis's lab
- Scinetics reports ScienceRSI, where small expert models' verified gains are written into a target model, and opens an 8B science-reasoning checkpoint
- A model that learns equivariance from data instead of building it in matches the equivariant reference models on molecular dipoles and NMR shielding tensors
- Independent DFT databases disagree by more than the gap between the top universal potentials, and three reported model failures shrink under the right control
- Whether AI weather models beat the physics model on extremes depends on which metric you pick: the AI models miss extremes, the physics model raises false alarms, and each metric punishes one of those
- A deep latent-variable model with do-calculus inside it picks out which regulators may drive a cell-state change and which merely travel with it
- Designing an RNA to bind a protein, with no binding site given, recovers the native complex on 16% of its authors' benchmark
- Full Phase 3 data for Moderna and Merck's individualized melanoma vaccine: risk of recurrence or death cut 42% (HR 0.58), with no difference in the first six months
- A single protein-design model from Baker's lab and NVIDIA beats the best specialist tools on four design tasks, and its designs were made and measured in the lab
- Google's personal health agent hands health questions to three AI specialists; in Nature, experts rate it above one agent and above the three answering separately
- Mirendil says one researcher working with AI agents pretrained Mirendil-Base, a coding model of 100B to 500B parameters, in 3.5 months for under $10M
- Duke researchers gave an off-the-shelf language model a pipetting robot and a webcam, and it designed its own experiments when it found it was missing information
- A KAUST and Bestzyme team redesigned a laundry protease with reinforcement learning, and three of their variants cleaned soiled cloth better than the commercial enzyme in a standard wash test
- Xaira's X-Scientist agents picked genes to perturb in liver cells, and 7.1% of its picks reversed the TGF-beta signal against 6.9% for its own scientists and 0.9% at random
- One LoRA adapter per space group, not per compound, cuts the cost of high-throughput thermal conductivity by a projected five to seven times
- Astellas signs AI Proteins to design miniprotein drugs against its targets, in a deal worth more than $400M with milestones
- Pinal, a model that writes a protein from a description in words, is published in Nature with four kinds of protein that worked in the lab
- Westlake University's Pinal turns a sentence describing the job into candidate proteins, and candidates for four different jobs worked in the lab
- Recursive releases Flint, an open 40B coding model for laptops, which it says its automated research system helped build
- Eka Robotics, founded by MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and ex-DeepMind Tuomas Haarnoja, raises a $150M Series A for robots that grip by feel
- Bob McGrew's Arda raises a $160M Series A at a $1.5B valuation for AI that turns product designs into assembly lines
- Thore Graepel's Metis Reasoning launches with four founders, a 12-person team and a white paper
- OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, whose agents track what a drug programme owes and when, and folds its team into Rosalind with no price disclosed
- Radical Numerics reports that phage variants its Omnii-1 model designed were given to one patient with a drug-resistant infection, under compassionate use
- Anthropic has Claude run a protein-binder design campaign against scorpion toxins; outside labs find 17 of 211 designs bind
- An agent framework simulates 14 nickel grain boundaries, then shows that leaving the boundary's own defects out of the cell moves the predicted sliding strength either way
- CrystalAR writes a crystal as one sequence, from space group down to atom positions, and nearly matches the best structure-prediction baselines on MP-20
- A screen of 2.8 million computed compounds for electrical conductivity finds none that beats copper, but several that rival aluminium on paper
- Scored by what a lab would actually discover, protein models' zero-shot accuracy explains under a fifth of the difference in what they find, and 50 to 100 measurements beat them
- Electric Plant comes out of stealth with an $11.2M seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic, to sell sensors and a model that read plants' electrical signals
- Radical Numerics reports its Omnii-1 model scoring above AlphaGenome and Borzoi at telling which changes in non-coding DNA actually do something
- Radical Numerics and Aptamino run three rounds of lab-measured antibody design with Omnii-1, and two designs bind tighter than the test can read
- With Lawrence Livermore, Radical Numerics reports its biology model predicting which rare earth metal a protein prefers better than the other methods tested
- Sanofi signs ScionxBio to redesign some of its mRNA drug candidates with a deep-learning platform so they keep making protein for longer
- Insilico reaches the first milestone in its oncology deal with Servier, ten months in, and Servier pays an undisclosed sum
- Ligo Biosciences' Artios designed esterases from scratch, and 17 of 88 were active in the company's own screen
- MATARIA, a Shanghai company led by Zheng Liu of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, raises a seed round of tens of millions of yuan led by Legend Capital
- On 131 protein-structure tasks, three of four frontier agents look up recorded metadata better than they compute geometry from coordinates
- Replayed over 203 archived spectra from a self-driving lab, an NTT agent decides when the fitting script can be nudged and when no number should be reported
- A team audits the single-cell perturbation harness it built and finds an identity predictor, returning the input unchanged, scores a perfect perturbation-effect correlation on all six splits
- Six foundation interatomic potentials are pushed onto disordered carbon, where low energy and force errors do not reveal the failures that binding curves and dynamics expose
- METiS TechBio will design lipids for Eli Lilly with its own AI platform, under a collaboration worth up to about $1.1B in milestones
- MOFFieldBench computes electron density and electrostatic potential for 46,000 metal-organic frameworks, so models can learn from the fields as well as the atoms
- Electric Plant's Bombadil learns plants' electrical signals from 4 million sensor-hours across 100 species, and follows hand-measured leaf stress with correlations of 0.27 to 0.71
- DeepSeek opens the Search and Fetch APIs behind its own search engine to every API user, at $0.75 per thousand calls
- DeepSeek updates its Flash model to V4.1-Flash-1017 under the same name and price, with MIT-licensed weights and higher scores on reasoning and agent benchmarks
- Google Research runs AI agents in a closed loop with a wet lab for three rounds, and designed aptamer hit rates rise from 0% to 42% on thrombin
- A plug-in that adds differentiable restraints to the denoising step wipes out ligand chirality and cis/trans errors in six structure predictors, AlphaFold3 among them
- One agent per perturbation: 1,946 copies of GPT-Rosalind re-derive most of a whole-brain Perturb-seq study's findings in 32 minutes, without the paper
- Claude, checked by an automatic evaluator, beats the best published quantum circuits on six of eight standard tasks and widens the trade-off on the eighth
- Anthropic is circulating a confidential draft AI safety bill on Capitol Hill under which a model could be stopped only on a billion-dollar or fifty-casualty risk from three named threats
- Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon safety report finds no significant speed-up in its own AI progress, though most of its production code is now over 75% AI-written
- EZPro-Fit, a model that designs an enzyme's protein and its DNA together, proposed cellulase variants; of 13 tested, two were both more heat-stable and more active
- Blitz cuts AlphaFold 3's structure-sampling stage from 200 steps to eight with little loss of accuracy, and shows how averaged scores hide the defects that come with fewer steps
- HighFold-Lasso gets AlphaFold 3 to thread all 52 lasso peptide structures in its test set correctly by starting it from a lasso shape
- A Toronto system given a goal, photos of the room and the instruments' interfaces built a digital twin of its lab, taught its robot arm the plate transfers and ran a 96-well quantum-dot screen
- Accel is set to lead a $60M round for Nando de Freitas's Revolution Labs, below the $100M+ reported in September
- AstraZeneca pays insitro $40M upfront for AI-led target and drug discovery in MASH and cardiomyopathy, with up to about $1.46B in milestones
- CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to build one foundation model for collider physics, trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions
- The European Commission asks companies and foundations to pledge models, computing and software licences to Europe's AI-for-science researchers; seven sign up first
- OpenAI opens GPT-Rosalind to US university labs through a Rosalind Academic Plan: up to 30 free ChatGPT seats for up to a year, no API
- XtalPi names its first siRNA drug candidate, for IgA nephropathy, nine months after the programme began on its Kodexia platform
- OmicsBench breaks 97 bioinformatics studies into 662 dependent subtasks, and no model and harness combination comes close to saturating it
- Holyvolt raises $45M to wire battery AI models into the high-throughput lab it bought, and take a nickel- and cobalt-free cathode to market in 2027
- Google DeepMind shows its Antigravity agent hunting antimicrobial peptides, and reaches one candidate now in wet-lab testing with no results yet
- Made to invent each atom's electronic fingerprint alongside the structure, a crystal generator triples its hit rate on the hardest two-property target
- A fine-tuned Aurora reproduces a chemistry-climate model's ozone, aerosol and radiation about 100 times faster, and satellite ozone in its training corrects biases it would have inherited
- Terray and NVIDIA fine-tune a Nemotron model to read chemical reaction diagrams, setting a new best on the RxnCaption benchmark
- Fields Medallist Jacob Tsimerman becomes full-time scientific director of the Mathematical AI Safety Institute instead of joining OpenAI as an employee
- The Department of Energy releases Genesis Agent Skills, a public set of instructions that teach AI coding agents how national labs do their work
- Sanofi options the first development candidate from its Recursion collaboration, an oral immunology molecule, and pays a $10M milestone
- Recursion sells $200M of new shares at $3.25 and says its cash now lasts into 2029
- Recursion reports three partial responses among 12 patients on REC-1245, a cancer drug whose target and molecule it says both came from its platform
- Designed from scratch, 13 of 69 cysteine proteases cut the peptide backbone where told, and designs cut their targets in cells
- Gaowei Yiyao closes a Pre-A round for AI target discovery, with its first candidate for Notch-driven cancers in Phase I
- Zinc proteases designed with RFdiffusion cut chosen peptide bonds, and some cut TDP-43 and amyloid-beta
- Ai2 releases HiRO-ACEv2, which generates global 3 km rain, wind and pressure for about 1/300 the cost of the simulation it learned from
- A year of blind methane releases tests 12 satellites and 15 analysis teams: instruments built for methane catch 92-100% of releases, and AI methods produce 79% of the false alarms
- Iambic prices its Nasdaq IPO at $16 a share, the middle of its range, raising $150M before costs
- Gilead pays Vir $90M upfront to design three masked T-cell engagers for solid tumours, using an AI-assisted protein-engineering platform
- Google.org gives $36M to 17 organisations using AI in science, from fusion plasmas and sodium-ion batteries to African drug-metabolism genes
- Leash Bio releases Minos: its pre-measured protein-binding screens as worlds where an AI agent picks molecules to test and gets the real binding result back at once
- A machine-learning correction on top of ECMWF's forecasts tops ECMWF's 2025 real-time contest for weather three and four weeks ahead, ahead of six operational forecast centres and 34 teams
- Danaher and NVIDIA say they are working to put accelerated computing into Danaher's instruments, starting with a select group of them and with no terms disclosed
- Scimplify, which develops specialty-chemical processes in its own labs and coordinates 500 partner plants with agents, raises $25M led by Hitachi Ventures
- Google Research folds only the patch a designed protein binds, cutting 88% of the GPU time for a 719-residue enzyme and getting single-digit nanomolar binders
- Zealand Pharma pays Generate Biomedicines $30M upfront to design multispecific proteins for obesity
- Albert raises a $55M Series B led by TCV for AI that searches and reasons over chemical companies' own R&D data
- Gamow Labs' AI pipeline re-reads 26 hard newborn lung-disease genomes blind, matches all 19 solved cases and finds a rearrangement in an unsolved one that Baylor confirms
- Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to all, publishing science case studies and a free-access plan for scientists
- Undecimal Bio, spun out of Eleven Therapeutics, launches with an $18M seed to find molecules that carry siRNA drugs to tissues beyond the liver
- Same force error, different rates: a preprint bounds how far a machine-learned potential can get a reaction rate wrong, using single-point energies on reaction paths
- Tianxu Intelligent Technology raises tens of millions of yuan for a wind-and-solar weather model and satellites of its own, with Houxue Capital the only investor
- Drylab AI raises a $3M seed led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India to run computational biology analyses as agents inside a customer's own machines
- A Stanford verifier that hunts for errors in AI maths proofs roughly halves the invalid solutions a human must read, and reports real mistakes in 11 OpenAI preprints
- Nine agents write 135 follow-up papers to order for national-lab scientists; a judge finds 114 of them fail an integrity check
- DeepSeek is in talks to lead a seed round for Winverse AI, a robot-AI startup founded by former Tencent scientist Han Hu, Bloomberg reports
- Matter Machine, a Liverpool spin-out searching for inorganic crystals, raises a GBP 4M pre-Series A led by IP Group, and Oxford Nanopore's Gordon Sanghera joins to lead its commercialisation
- Britain extends its use of frontier AI to find holes in government systems, and says it will explore reporting duties for serious AI incidents while work begins on responding to ones involving AI agents
- AriadneX splits a powder diffraction pattern into the phases already known and what is left over, to point chemists at the samples holding something new
- Where in a transcript an RNA sensor should bind: a model trained on 7,383 measured sensors picks working target sites in a virus gene it had never seen
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena finds language models read which atoms a material contains but not how they are arranged
- A Brucella vaccine candidate designed from predicted epitopes raised cytokine release and shifted T-cell subset proportions in donor blood cells, with no animal protection test yet
- The ART preprint lands, and reports that ten reruns of the same agent campaign all reached the locus and none saw the repeat array
- Twenty-three ways of deciding when to trust a chemistry model are scored against held-out error: the model's own uncertainty cuts error by 65%, the best similarity measure by 32%
- Scinetics releases Chain of Structures, where a language model plans an enzyme in four steps and a protein generator builds each step before the next is written
- Litai Zhiyao raises a seed round of nearly 50M yuan to design peptide drugs with generative models
- Random forests trained on 105 lab specimens predict how swapping crushed stone for natural gravel weakens asphalt, and place the steepest loss between 12% and 16% gravel
- TypeSafe AI raises an $870M Series A at a $7.5B valuation for Jev, a model that hands software typed decisions instead of text
- GSK takes Chai Discovery's design models across its pipeline after its own lab found binders to every target it tested
- A general chatbot, given formation energies as feedback, found 96% of a materials benchmark's low-energy compositions in 5,000 tries, more than twice what purpose-built generators found with the same budget
- A neural-network potential proposed where the hydrogen atoms X-rays cannot see sit in a copper cluster, and the cluster itself drove a range of photocatalytic reactions
- Ten GPT-5 setups were put on 161 clinical cases: thinking harder helped, running an agent made it worse, and search sank the weakest
- Oganov's group runs evolutionary crystal-structure search on a landscape that includes quantum nuclear motion, using machine-learned potentials to make it affordable, and recovers LaH10's observed cubic phase
- The National Hurricane Center leaned on Google DeepMind's AI model for Isaias from the first advisory, which called a Category 2; the storm made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2
- ARPA-H puts up to $28.6M into NATIVE-ID, a project to measure how 50,000 proteins clump in cells and train AI to predict it
- An audit of Google's GNoME crystal data finds most predicted structures sit within 0.05 Å of a known crystal's geometry
- Prompteina designs all-atom protein structures from written prompts, and nine of its GM2A designs bind in the lab, the strongest at 107 nM
- ACED-Bench scores agents on choosing the right experiment and knowing when to stop, with a hidden causal model supplying every answer
- Roche and ETH Zurich let one model choose which borylation reactions to run, and a second, trained on the result, called where the reaction lands on ten new ring compounds
- AstraZeneca trained a toxicity model on liver-cell proteomes, traced why some prostate-cancer degraders kill liver cells in a dish, and picked a near twin that did not
- DOE picks four national-lab projects to build shared robotics testbeds for autonomous science: $30M in all, $2M of it in fiscal 2026
- Isomorphic Labs is in early talks to raise money at a valuation of at least $40B, five months after its $2.1B Series B, Bloomberg reports
- Iambic sets its IPO at $15-17 a share, about $150M at the midpoint, and two investors signal interest in up to $60M of it
- Machine-learned potentials were run over 317,457 experimental crystal structures to find bad entries, and caught two nobody had reported
- A world model learns to skip ahead in atomic simulations by predicting which atoms move and how much time passed, with the physics bolted on as hard constraints
- Anthropic commits $150M over three years to the Genesis Mission, one of eleven company pledges the White House totals at $2.4B
- Nine general-purpose atomic potentials were scored on how carbides stiffen and soften between 300 and 1200K, and most came out too soft
- Anthropic's new usage policy, effective 12 November, requires a person who can stop any machine its models drive, and exempts lab automation inside enclosed instruments
- DOE funds 12 more Genesis Mission Phase II projects with $159M, from a fusion digital twin to enzyme design and autonomous accelerators
- NVIDIA puts $1B over five years behind US science, the largest of the eleven Genesis Mission industry pledges
- OpenProblemBench gives AI agents 82 open problems from mathematics and theoretical physics, and model judges rate GPT-6 Astra's answers solved 14% of the time
- Academia Sinica researchers had Claude Code supervise model building and refinement for 24 cryo-EM and X-ray structures; re-refined cryo-EM models gained better geometry, and the researcher kept the final call
- Claude derived, coded and fitted a new equation of state for polar fluids from a one-page brief; it fits ethers within about 1% and needs its polar term all but switched off for ketones
- AutoDrude fits a polarizable force field straight from DFT, and catches the lithium transport in a polymer electrolyte that charge scaling misses
- Computing the Coulomb repulsion from first principles takes about 40 K off Mg2IrH6's predicted superconducting temperature
- A doubly metastable synthesis method makes four phases, three of which match no structure in the databases its authors searched
- Brice Ménard uses Claude Science to build a full-sky ultraviolet map, a third of it predicted from other wavelengths
- OpenAI withdraws three of its model's maths manuscripts after a sign error, and revises 14 others
- Biohub, the US DOE and NIH, and Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta commit $1.8B to open data for virtual-cell models
- Matchpoint Therapeutics raises a $150M Series B to take its oral covalent T-cell drug MPT-062 into the clinic in 2027
- Rivercell launches in Paris with a $25M seed to generate data on how cells respond to treatment over time, and train a virtual-cell model on it
- Meta fits a scaling law to how well a robot world model imagines what happens next, and it holds for the two largest models, which were left out of the fit
- Ten extra structures per material sharpen a pretrained potential's phonons, but most ways of fine-tuning it then get phase transitions more wrong than not fine-tuning at all
- Danaher plans its first AI-run autonomous lab, at Abcam, to design, make and test antibodies and other reagents, at scale from early 2027
- Simon Batzner, a co-author of GNoME, leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
- OpenAI releases 722 maths manuscripts from the unreleased model behind its Navier–Stokes claim
- Resolution's agents formalize Hironaka's resolution of singularities in Lean: about 600,000 lines in a week, for an estimated $135,000 in tokens
- WhiteLab Genomics raises $26M to test its AI-designed gene therapy delivery vehicles in animals
- Multiply Labs raises a reported $75M for robots that automate manual steps in making cell and gene therapies and other biologics
- Vinci raises $250M at a $1.5B valuation for a physics model meant to replace simulation checkpoints in chip design
- A Peking University team and coding agents formalize the Poincaré conjecture in Lean: about 2.8 million lines, a little over two weeks for the main phase, about $25,000
- A model that reads the retina's vessel network predicts preeclampsia months early, and held up at a second hospital with 13 cases
- XtalPi debuts a closed-loop siRNA design platform and says six of its own programmes now run on it, the first reaching monkey data in 7 months
- insitro puts models trained on Lilly's decades of preclinical data into Lilly TuneLab, for member biotechs to predict how a molecule behaves in the body before making it
- Gemini 4 agents propose, and the authors re-derive, exact 3D plasma equilibria that break stellarator symmetry, widening the counterexamples to Grad's conjecture
- Arc Institute releases PIE, an open model that predicts how cells respond to a perturbation by reading what is already known about the gene, drug and cell line
- Italfarmaco signs an AI drug-discovery deal with VeriSIM Life on an HDAC target, potentially worth over $100M in fees, milestones and royalties
- Google DeepMind and Caltech's AlphaProtein Novo designs an enzyme that makes piperidine at 99:1, where none of 188 natural and engineered variants beat 30:70
- Iambic files to start a Phase 1/2 trial of IAM217, a KIF18A inhibitor it says it designed with AI and without a drug-bound crystal structure
- A Vals researcher and Claude agents compute two magnet candidates that sort electrons by spin with no net magnetism, one of them first made in 1999
- The US and 16 other countries endorse the Kyoto Vision, a non-binding statement that they will try to put AI to work in science
- Zhao Song and Microsoft Research's Xinzhi Zhang post a proof of the 1995 KLS conjecture, working with AI tools they directed
- Xaira says X-Design Vega took its XA-1 nanobody from DNA synthesis to a lead in 7 weeks, and made an antagonist for a GPCR that library screening and llama immunisation failed on
- XtalPi moves its own AI- and robot-designed hair-loss drug into IND-enabling studies after a mouse result it compares with minoxidil
- Ai2 opens the weights and training data of AstaBrief 8B, the model that writes cited literature reports in its Asta tool
- ImmuneAgent ranks antibody candidates out of human B-cell sequencing: 60 of 110 cloned neutralised a virus, 12 of them broadly
- Meta posts six maths papers done with Muse Spark in its ordinary chat app; it says five answer open questions, and for three of them other teams posted answers first
- Baker lab designs two working enzymes with complex active sites, one with a 2.7 Å crystal structure
- MIT's VISTA harness lets Claude Opus 5.0 finish all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games from screen images, with no new model trained
- arXiv caps each submitter at two papers a month after a record 40,363 submissions in September, a rise it puts down to AI tools
- Imperial's GEODE makes 11.9% metastable, unique and novel crystals on MP-20, against 7.7% for the next symmetry-aware model
- AI Theorist builds a model of a quantum material's optical spectra from measurements nobody had published, and the experiment that would settle it has not been run
- MeteoSwiss's 1-km AI weather model Varda-single roughly matches its own 1-km physics model for 33 hours over the Alps, but underestimates some local wind peaks
- Shift Bioscience says the metrics behind 'perturbation models do not beat baselines' are miscalibrated, and that newer models win once better-calibrated metrics are used
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- Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders, and says it beat a published quantum-subroutine baseline by 40%
- DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio in Nature: invisible watermarks for AI-designed proteins that still bind their targets
- Zenithon raises a $10M seed to build world models for fusion, rocket and chip-making physics
- HHS and ARPA-H launch SURPASS, a five-year programme to run clinical trials with digital twins and AI agents
- OpenAI and Synopsys agree to build GPT-Synopsys, a model that runs Synopsys chip-design tools, with shared revenue
- CompMat-Bench: three LLMs pass 66.0-90.4% of 94 computational-materials research steps, with the costly simulations run in advance
- Profluent and BioMarin agree to design enzyme replacement therapies with Profluent's protein models, on terms neither names
- Autopoiesis Sciences raises an $11M seed led by Threshold to build AI for scientific reasoning and autonomous discovery
- A flu forecast Google says it built with its ERA coding system ranked first of 39 models in CDC's scoring of the 2025-26 season
- Edison Scientific says Kosmos drafted about 70% of a pre-IND meeting request Population Health Partners sent to the FDA
- OpenAI's DevDay upgrades its work tools: always-on agents called dots, Codex in the cloud, shared ChatGPT Space pages, and GPT-6.1 Sol
- Kyunghyun Cho launches Ortet, a frontier AI lab for health, with a $500M commitment from Thoreau
- OpenAI is reported to be targeting at least $30B at about a $1.4T valuation, in early talks
- CARAT tests whether a materials LLM reasons over a crystal structure or copies the answer printed in its input
- A UC Santa Cruz benchmark finds an AI scientist can predict well while missing the law, and find the law while predicting badly
- OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol costs $5.47 per Terminal-Bench Science task, against $23.21 to $23.80 for Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra
- GLASS generates metal-organic frameworks of up to 150 atoms at 74.8% structural validity, but 98.3% of its valid samples match known training frameworks
- Microsoft Research releases Quine, a multimodal world model of biology, open to a fellows programme and selected collaborations
- RxnOptBench asks models to pick reaction conditions from real screening tables; chemistry-specialised models score at chance on the multi-axis choice
- Sandia National Laboratories will use Radical AI's self-driving lab to search for cheaper metal membranes that separate out hydrogen
- Tremont AI comes out of stealth as a Mahmood Lab spin-out, licensing Mass General Brigham technology to read tissue from animal drug-safety studies
- AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2B in stock
- Anthropic's IPO prospectus, as Reuters reports it: $4.6B of 2025 revenue, a $42B net loss and $518B of planned compute spend
- OpenAI's chief scientist, an Anthropic co-founder, Hinton and Bengio co-sign a paper warning that automating AI research could set off an intelligence explosion
- OpenAI shelves Astra 6.1 over deception in safety tests, as the UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra attacking software supply chains in simulation
- Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 at Sonnet 5's price and says it runs over 30% faster
- CP2K developers build the machine-learned Skala functional into CP2K and test it on crystals: hybrid-level band gaps, but lattice constants come out too small
- A cheap stand-in for electron-phonon coupling screens over 100,000 hydrides and points to cubic NaH6, predicted stable down to 50 GPa
- Biossil raises $153M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $1B valuation to revive failed drug candidates with language models
- MindRank licenses its AI-designed oral GLP-1 MDR-001 to two 3SBio subsidiaries for Greater China: RMB 150M upfront, up to RMB 1.75B in all
- Roche says it has started building autonomous AI-driven labs, and that 40% of pipeline decisions carried a tracked AI or computational contribution
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology's GuideFlip designs binders to disordered protein regions: 4.5 nM for an RBX1 tail, and a cryo-EM structure of a nanobody on an active receptor
- DTU's ANCHOR freezes a crystal-structure model and trains only the choice of compositions, lifting stable, unique, new crystals from 1.1% to 22.1%
- Novartis fine-tunes Boltz-1 on ten WRN crystal structures, and it learns an allosteric pocket and a large shape change it had never seen
- Nando de Freitas's Revolution Labs is in talks to raise $100M+, the latest in a wave of DeepMind and Brain alumni startups
- DARPA funds MarWell Bio to predict protein function straight from sequence
- Mila and ETH Zurich rebuild DFT's basis set as a cloud of Gaussians fitted by gradient descent, reaching 2,742 atoms on one four-GPU node
- AtomWorld-Mem adds memory to a model that chooses which atomic hops a kinetic Monte Carlo run simulates, getting up to 420 times more progress per event
- Bochum's explainable XRD model names the space group 56% of the time on patterns from 50 experimental structures, against 42% reported earlier
- DTU finds perfect-crystal models give about half the atoms that molecular-dynamics models fit to a self-driving lab's gold nanoparticle X-ray data
- A UKRI-funded network let AI models reject half of 179 grant proposals before any person read them
- Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in a toy particle-physics theory, checked by the physicist who reached eight loops
- Turbine expands its ADC-discovery collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo after a feasibility study
- Lila Sciences' AI-guided lab finds an iridium-free catalyst for green hydrogen, stable for 1,000+ hours
- A-Lab's cost-guided framework finds two fast NASICON solid electrolytes in 78 autonomous synthesis trials
- OpenRxn26 shows a leading reaction-potential model degrades several-fold once trajectories leave the textbook reaction path
- X2SBench finds a crystal-structure model that improves on simulated diffraction patterns gets worse on real ones
- PhiGen recovers crystal phases classical direct methods can't, across space groups it never trained on
- PFArena finds protein language models and LLM agents win at different protein-modification tasks, not one
- Genentech pays AI antibody company Earendil $55M upfront to design cancer bispecifics
- Roche pays Atavistik Bio $70M upfront to hunt allosteric drugs for heart, kidney and metabolic disease
- BigHat Biosciences raises $75M to take its AI-designed antibodies to clinical readouts
- SJTU professor Zhenli Xu's Soge raises tens of millions of yuan for AI materials simulation
- AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel is in talks to raise tens of millions of dollars for Metis Reasoning
- HetCat26: a model's rank on general materials benchmarks says little about how it handles catalysis
- Zurich cancer-testing startup Prevision Medicine raises a $5.4M seed
- The AlphaFold Database adds predicted protein-pair structures for 2,812 viral proteomes, and about 30% of the interfaces have no match among measured structures
- Edison Scientific signs a subscription agreement with Springer Nature that lets Kosmos read the Nature portfolio's specialist journals
- A tautomer predictor trained on 1.1M crystal structures flags likely-wrong ligand assignments in PDBbind
- Basecamp Research raises $140M to train new models on its own biodiversity dataset
- Machine learning tunes TiO2-modified cement mortar for both dye removal and strength
- Anthropic's wet lab reports its first result: an agent flags an unannotated repeat array, and human lab work shows it is transcribed
- WhatWorkedBench tests whether AI research agents know why an experiment worked, not just how to run it
- CellAudit shows an agent-discovered cell-response predictor scores well while ignoring the input it claims to use
- Stanford's Minerva independently finds reverse-transcriptase-linked repeat arrays across 150 bacterial genomes
- Research agents game their own scoring unprompted, and learn to hide it once told how they were caught
- Enveda raises $311M for medicines its AI finds in natural compounds
- DTU releases a 15-million-structure dataset of solid-liquid interfaces for materials AI
- NYU releases Tautomer-Predictor, trained on 1.1 million crystal structures, to flag wrong hydrogen positions in drug candidates
- Azulene Labs raises $3.4M to train physics-constrained chemistry models on quantum-mechanical data
- RECLAIM: the best open-weight agents reproduce 41% of ML papers when code and weights are released, 15% when code is not
- Radical AI says all six materials its electronic-property model proposed met the target in its self-driving lab, while a second model did not
- An LLM-guided AI finds the sequence rule for RNA Pol II pausing, then helps overturn the pause-release model
- Stanford's MUSegNet beats six expert readers at finding prostate cancer on micro-ultrasound
- Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5, crossing into last week's biology verification gate
- UFO-MGen encodes crystal symmetry as topology, reports the best stability score among generative crystal models
- A benchmark finds generative crystal-structure models mostly rediscover known prototypes, not genuinely new structures
- An Argonne agent translates interatomic-potential equations straight into working LAMMPS simulation code
- A proof built largely with Codex claims x^3+y^5=z^7 has no nonzero coprime solutions
- MARC-TS learns whole reaction paths, and quantum chemistry confirms 405 of 410 predicted transition states
- SynMatAI raises an angel+ round of tens of millions of yuan for AI-led chip-packaging materials
- LongXun KuangTeng, a materials-computing firm since 2015, raises a B1 round of about 100M yuan
- An AI agent runs multi-day quantum transport measurements on MoS2 devices at 10 mK, with no human at the controls
- Mirendil, founded by ex-Anthropic researchers to automate AI research, is in talks to raise up to $1B at a $5B valuation
- Microsoft Research's Agensh runs up to 1,024 coding agents with no central coordinator; rebuilding pandoc, the test-pass rate rises from 34% to 55%
- AI-written carrier parts for antibiotic assembly-line enzymes work in living cells: 76 designs, 578 variants built and measured, yields up to three times the natural part
- RetroChimera: organic chemists prefer an ensemble's retrosynthesis predictions to published reactions
- Nine mathematicians form an independent group to referee OpenAI's math claims
- Open-weight LLMs encode clinical risk but rarely act on cost asymmetry correctly
- A few hundred real assay labels are enough to sharpen Boltz-2's virtual-screening picks
- AugNet fills the last two missing pieces for reference-free acceleration of materials DFT calculations
- Sixteen independent AI agents converge on the same MOF discovery, and the same shared error
- AlphaFold3 gets worse the more a single mutation reshapes a protein, tested on 6,967 crystal structures
- Machine learning barely beats a one-line rule at spotting single-ion magnets
- Iambic files for a Nasdaq IPO the same day AbbVie signs on to use its AI drug-discovery platform
- Fine-tuning Boltz-2 on a few hundred lab measurements nearly doubles its hit rate in virtual screening
- XtalPi opens more than 80 in-house drug-discovery tools to its science agent and lets it schedule the company's lab robots
- Iambic describes Enchant v3, a 41-billion-parameter in-house model that predicts drug properties from 16 kinds of data, and says accuracy has kept rising with scale
- Cambridge's BRIDGE-AD nominates a lysosomal gene for Alzheimer's, then tests it in microglia
- A CU Boulder engineer derives two new soft-matter results with Claude Code in about 75 hours
- A general-purpose LLM plans and revises its own retrosynthesis routes, closing 111 of 120 benchmark targets
- Scinetics raises nearly 50M yuan to build a science foundation model tied to robotic lab work
- FutureHouse and Edison Scientific publish twelve Millennium Problems for biology
- Anthropic confirms it has built a physical wet lab for biology research
- Tufts and Vermont build MOMbot, a robot scientist that runs its own biology experiments
- MIT's Bayesian-optimization AI finds thermostable mRNA vaccine formulations in six iterations
- Terence Tao's SAIR Foundation previews a community-governed open math model
- A quantum-inspired constraint helps a classical generative model survive transfer learning
- The UK's £500m Sovereign AI fund is close to anchoring a round in drug-discovery start-up Potential Sciences
- An independent UCL test of DrugCLIP finds it generalises to unseen proteins, but its performance drops sharply on unbound structures and predicted pockets
- Stanford's 37,000-agent Virtual Biotech proposes a lung-cancer drug strategy
- Insilico and collaborators publish a 17-task benchmark and specialist LLMs for aging biology
- Anthropic opens a verification program that loosens Claude's biology safeguards for vetted teams
- Anew Labs publishes an agentic drug discovery engine with a wet-lab-validated antibody campaign
- Molecular conformer-ranking skill emerges unintended in frontier LLMs
- PhAI Labs' cross-domain world model nominates a cancer drug intervention that holds up in mice
- UC San Diego builds a 4D virtual cell that reproduces a known drug effect without being fit to it
- Claude rewrites 30+ open biology models for speed, and Anthropic open-sources the result
- An LLM-curated dataset of 50,000+ patients finds two distinct genetic causes of cancer-treatment toxicity
- Google Cloud's ScientistTwo beats the method of 86 of 107 published machine-learning papers on their own benchmarks, and AI reviewers rate most of its write-ups acceptable
- Big Picture Bio launches with a £1.5M pre-seed to pick cancer drug combinations from a model of the tumour
- Polyphron raises a $20M seed led by Quiet Capital to test AI's biological predictions on human heart tissue grown from many donors, liver next, with a former Gemini researcher as co-founder
- ByteDance's AI drug-discovery unit spins out as Anew Labs and raises $290M
- Novo Nordisk will test Anthropic's Claude Science inside its R&D workflows
- Stanford's Paper2Agent turns research papers into AI agents that reproduce and extend their findings
- SynAgent has a multimodal LLM agent build its own understanding of a synthesis process
- Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to study AGI's societal impact
- NSF opens its $1.5B X-Labs program to AI for physical systems
- Moderna finds sampling protocol, not architecture, decided a GAN-vs-VAE antibody test
- PhAI Labs turns scientific codebases into agent environments, and catches its own benchmark leaking answers
- ShEPhERD-2 designs drug-like molecules from a 3D interaction profile alone, 6.4x faster than its predecessor
- Durham spin-out Magnitude Biosciences raises £1.3M to scale ML-read screening in live worms
- Apex Intelligence raises nearly $50M across two rounds to build a self-improving AI researcher
- Intrepid Labs' Andromeda 2 agent designs oral paclitaxel formulations: 12 met all four targets, against 6 for its older optimiser and 0 for lab design-of-experiments
- OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind confirm they have been coordinating on safety
- A model trained on the electrocatalysis literature ranks seven rare-earth dopants, and the lab confirms its top four
- PhAI Labs releases ScienceBuddy, a research agent that retrains its own harness and model
- OpenAI Foundation commits $125M to open scientific datasets for AI-driven health research
- Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, pairing real-time speech with multi-step reasoning
- LG AI Research's chemistry-vision model goes into production inside Elsevier's Reaxys
- Periodic Labs post-trains a 1T model on its own lab data to read diffraction results
- Recursion licenses its RNA foundation model to Tempus for oncology diagnostics
- XtalPi's LCMS2Yield predicts how strongly a reaction product absorbs UV light, so its yield can be measured without first purifying a reference sample
- Google, Google DeepMind and MIT FutureTech survey 637 scientists and analyse 15 million Gemini interactions: about 7 hours saved a week, and much of it spent checking the AI
- Mithrl raises a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures to sort which biology hypotheses survive the next experiment, rather than generate more of them
- Google researchers release Stellar Colosseum, a many-agent harness for long-horizon math research
- Five drug companies federate private structures to sharpen a protein-ligand model
- Peking University's OpenAI4S, an open-source research agent that keeps every step as rerunnable code, scores 7.83 against 5.7 to 6.4 for Claude Code on 36 science tasks
- IAM-I and 26 organizations in 14 countries publish a shared 2040 roadmap for materials AI
- 25 Fields Medalists warn of a “severe misalignment” between AI labs and mathematics
- Clay Institute says Navier–Stokes is “apparently settled” but will not rush verification
- Frontier safety researchers leave AI labs for independent evaluator METR
- MoleculeMind's QuantaMind, a learned force field for reactive molecular dynamics, appears in Science Advances: near-DFT accuracy on systems of about ten thousand atoms
- Rhinovate raises a Pre-A round in the hundreds of millions of yuan for AI-run materials labs
- Insilico doses the first patient in a planned 320-person Phase 3 trial of rentosertib, its AI-found drug for lung fibrosis
- Random Z80 programs that pay energy for every instruction evolve to copy themselves while holding back from stealing each other's energy
- Berkeley's GPN-Star reads human DNA beside the same stretch in other species, and beats far larger genome models at flagging disease variants, in Nature
- Westlake University and DP Technology publish ProteinTalks in Nature, a virtual cell trained on drug-treated breast cancer proteomes whose drug picks were tested on three patients' organoids
- Aureka opens up its agentic antibody-design harness, and 38 of 80 designs from it bound their target in the company's own lab
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences and DP Technology's UniCure predicts how a patient's tumour responds to drugs, checked on 396 clinical profiles
- AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes nine billion DNA variant effects
- GPT-5.6 Sol runs experiments on a superconducting quantum chip
- OpenAI reports an AI-generated Navier–Stokes solution amid a provenance dispute
- Mathematicians dispute credit for OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes result
- A pre-registered physics judge finds none of 1,248 AI-generated superconductor candidates hold up
- MIT's IRIS reads which signals a cell received during development from its gene activity, and a mouse-tissue test confirmed one prediction
- Insilico ran six proteomic aging clocks on blood from its rentosertib trial, and treated patients read biologically younger than placebo, most clearly at week four
- Living Models' BOTANIC-1 plant DNA models: the largest puts the known causal variant in its top 1% of candidates in half of 545 studies
- OpenAI says coding agents have reached its automated research-intern milestone
- Superluminal Medicines, which designs GPCR drugs with machine learning and cryo-EM, raises a $60M Series B led by BVF Partners to take its first drug into the clinic
- Claude completes a computer-checked formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem
- DeepMind study: an agent research swarm spreads an evaluator exploit, and other agents blow the whistle
- Inceptive's fine-tuned models design CAR-T mRNAs that cleared more B cells in mice than Capstan's optimised sequence in three of five tries
- DataHow, an ETH Zurich spin-out, raises a bridge round to link its bioprocess models to live plant data
- Tsinghua AIR spin-out AIPher raises an angel round of about 100M yuan for AI-led drug discovery
- AI-designed protein assemblies build RNA transporters that beat lipid nanoparticles by orders of magnitude
- BigHat doses the first patient with BHB810, its first AI-designed drug in humans
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- Lila says its platform designed an in vivo CAR-T mRNA that beat a benchmark in monkeys; its conference abstract and its blog give different figures
- Anthropic expands discounted Claude access for scientists
- Anthropic previews a common interface for agents and lab hardware
- Co-Scientist crosses from hypotheses into physical experiments
- Tetsuwan Scientific runs 9,143 robot dispenses chosen with Claude and learns a pipetting model that predicts precision about 12% better than the maker's datasheet
- StoneWise and Peking University ran a generative model that learns from each round of wet-lab results through three drug-optimisation campaigns
- Diogo Machado had GPT-4o pick among 139 Austrian grant proposals; it was less likely than the funder to back those reviewers rated novel
- Google moves its AI Responsibility team out of DeepMind
- BixBench3: on 20 computational biology tasks run from raw data, 13 frontier models score 0.00 to 0.48
- Transfyr launches with a $25M seed led by General Catalyst to record how lab work is actually done; ARPA-H's founding director is a co-founder
- MIT trains a crystal-and-text model on AI-written descriptions of 126,000 crystals; trained on sentences from papers instead, its property search does no better than chance
- Benchmark finds agents complete only a minority of full science workflows
- Claude and two mathematicians push the elliptic curve rank record to 31
- OpenBind-0 releases a fully open co-folding model and finds four more years of PDB data did not help everywhere
- Microsoft Research pretrains Orbformer, one neural network wavefunction for many molecules, and reaches chemical accuracy on breaking bonds at a cost that competes with classical methods
- The Baker lab's SAPP and DMX turn protein-design testing into a 48-hour batch
- Bioptimus gets 1,750 colorectal cancer patient profiles from Cancer Research Horizons to train and test M-Optimus
- An individualized cancer vaccine whose neoantigens an algorithm picks meets its Phase 3 endpoints
- 511 AI-designed or AI-ranked antibodies went into a blinded challenge and were measured under one set of protocols: at picking the strongest binders, all but one method did worse than choosing at random
- Generalist AI's GEN-1.5 learns a new robot task from one demonstration, succeeding 59% of the time with no retraining
- Network Bio launches with $50 million from Section 32, Thiel Bio, Founders Fund and others to train AI on patient tissue from academic biobanks
- Anthropic reports Claude-designed protein binders working in the lab
- ASI-Bench tests agents without step-by-step research guidance
- OpenAI's LifeSciBench: 750 expert-written life-science tasks, with OpenAI's own GPT-Rosalind the best model at a 36.1% pass rate
- Enveda reports ENV-308, a pill built to mimic an exercise hormone, was well tolerated in 88 healthy volunteers
- GenBio AI, co-founded by a Nobel laureate, releases a preview of AIDO Cell, a model that simulates a human cell from DNA to whole-cell behaviour
- LiteFold's LiteMol-1 puts small molecules, peptides, macrocycles and PROTACs in one generator built for agents
- Lanyon AI, a Princeton lab building formally verified scientific AI, emerges from stealth with a $10.6M first round led by Dimension
- Inherent trains a 27B agent that directs frontier coding agents
- AI antibody-discovery company Aureka Biotechnologies closes a $100M Series B in tranches, taking its total to nearly $200M
- Claude improves a longstanding bound related to the Riemann hypothesis
- Discovered Materials, a YC startup using AI agents to look for chip-cooling materials, raises a $9M seed led by Lightspeed India Partners
- Purdue's torch test: Radical AI's alloy RAI-939 gained 0.25% mass where the Apollo-era alloy C103 lost 32%
- WeatherNext Cyclones gains roughly a day of forecast lead time
- AI verifiers start auditing the scientific record, flagging errors across whole paper corpora
- Jeff Dean leaves Google to found Discovery Loop
- Demis Hassabis moves from DeepMind CEO to Alphabet Chief Scientist
- BASF's catalyst arm licenses Orbital Industries' CurieOS to look for automotive emissions catalysts
- AI Proteins publishes the lab workflow that turns DNA into purified protein in three days, and made 87 of 96 test proteins with it
- MinerU.Chem adds a chemistry layer to PDF parsing, turning papers into traceable molecule and reaction records
- A Multiply Labs robot cluster matches skilled operators on cell-therapy steps, with a lower cell count at low concentration
- Lanyon AI's own benchmark has five frontier models write PDE solvers with Lean proofs, and finds they often prove something other than the code they wrote
- Owkin's model reading heart ultrasound flags which early-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients worsen, checked on 48 patients in a second hospital
July 2026 23 entries
- FrontierMath adds 50 genuinely unsolved research problems
- Relation expands its GSK deal to up to $110M for cell perturbation data and its MORGAN foundation model
- Google DeepMind no longer has a dedicated AlphaFold team: its researchers have moved to Gemini, enzyme design, fusion and genomics, or left
- Raygun edits protein length with a language-model code, and some shortened proteins still work in cells
- Schrödinger opens early access to Bunsen, an AI agent that plans, runs and reads its physics-based molecular modelling, and Bristol Myers Squibb agrees to roll it out across its research
- Enveda reports an oral eczema pill cut skin scores 85% by day 42 in nine patients
- DOE selects the first 278 Genesis Mission projects; Brookhaven and Stony Brook lead ten of them
- Berkeley Lab and Oak Ridge lead 22 of DOE's first Genesis Mission projects
- PNNL leads 16 of DOE's first Genesis Mission projects and states numeric targets for several
- NSF puts $20M into PoLARIS, a robot-run soft-materials lab at UChicago and Argonne that outside researchers will run from their own desks
- Google commits $40M in AI tokens and cloud credits to the Genesis Mission, and says Gemini cut a national lab's microscope calibration from 90 to 13 minutes
- CuspAI raises a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation and pools 45-plus partners' labs, compute and expertise onto its platform as the AI Materials Foundry
- Anthropic names five winners of its week-long Claude life-sciences hackathon, run with the Gladstone Institutes
- Sanofi nominates a new target in its Aqemia collaboration, triggering a milestone payment of undisclosed size
- Latent Labs opens Latent-Y, an agent that designs antibodies from a written prompt, to any approved researcher
- Chai Discovery raises $400M at a $3.8B valuation, led by Index Ventures
- A PolQ inhibitor scaffold from Iktos's generative model reaches low-nanomolar potency in the test tube, and its most potent compound is inactive in cells
- Alchemab, which looks for antibodies in people who resist disease, adds a GBP 25M Series A extension from the British Business Bank, the bank's largest life sciences investment
- Chalmers pairs LLM agents with an automated yeast lab and reports two new interactions, each tested in the lab
- alqem raises EUR 8M pre-seed, co-led by UVC Partners and Union Square Ventures, to search for magnets that use no rare earths
- Aureka releases OpenDDE, an open co-folding model that predicts an acceptable interface for 66.4% of antibody-antigen complexes on a new test set it curated, against 51.0% for the next best model
- TranscriptFormer, a single-cell model trained on 112M cells from 12 species, is published in Science
- A follow-up from the BFF team finds tuned random mutation discovers self-copying programs faster than the soup's paired interactions
June 2026 19 entries
- Medra launches an AI layer that plans and revises experiments for its robot lab, with a DARPA-funded project to turn written protocols into machine runs
- Bayer signs a drug-discovery collaboration with Iambic to use its Enchant and NeuralPLexer models on hard-to-drug targets
- Flex-Cat closes a catalyst-optimization loop and scales the result tenfold
- John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind to join Anthropic
- Insilico doses the first person in a Phase 1 trial of ISM8969, an NLRP3 inhibitor it designed with AI and co-owns with Hygtia Therapeutics
- Noetik's TARIO-2 picked out likelier responders to Agenus's BOT+BAL immunotherapy from routine biopsy slides, looking back at 49 colorectal cancer patients in a trial
- Radical Numerics, started by the team behind the Evo and Evo 2 DNA models, launches with a $50M seed round led by Emergence Capital to build one model that reads DNA, RNA and proteins together
- Radical Numerics previews Omnii, a genome language model that scores noncoding variants above CADD and Evo 2 on the company's own benchmark runs
- Shenzhen's Jindu Shengke raises nearly 100M yuan in a Series A for an omics model tied to agents that run lab instruments
- Terray's TerraSynth designs molecules with a route to make them, and in Terray's own projects chemists made half its compounds in 4 weeks instead of 8
- Recursive reports its first results from an automated AI research system, beating the best public scores on two small-model training benchmarks and a GPU-kernel benchmark
- XtalPi signs an unnamed international drugmaker to an oral small-molecule programme for a GPCR target, with a potential total value over $400M
- Anthropic tests Claude against ChemDraw and MestReNova on NMR prediction for 20 new compounds
- Generalist AI raises $400M led by Radical Ventures for robot foundation models; a Form D later shows $198M more
- Alnylam pays Inceptive $30M upfront to design siRNA drugs with its generative models, in a deal worth up to $2B
- Lila Sciences is in talks to raise about $2 billion at an $8.5 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reports
- Genesis says its Pearl system, given only an unbound protein structure, posed 78% of 802 ligands within its best 25 tries in OpenBind's EV-A71 benchmark, above every co-folding model OpenBind tested
- Orbital Industries releases OrbMol-v2, an open molecular simulation model it scores ahead of the B3LYP and PBE0 functionals on a public chemistry benchmark
- FieldQuantum raises several hundred million yuan in two angel rounds to put quantum computing behind an AI4S platform
May 2026 23 entries
- Inherent, founded by three former DeepMind researchers, comes out of stealth with a $50M seed co-led by Index and Radical
- Unreasonable Labs' ProjectionBench asks models to predict a recent paper's results from its research question alone, then with more detail; GPT-5.4 scores highest
- Unreasonable Labs' LEIA predicts how 3D lattice materials deform and where stress builds as loads are applied step by step, checked only against simulation
- Biohub opens ESMFold2 under an MIT licence, and reports its designed binders hitting their targets in the lab for 36% to 88% of the small ones
- Perceptic, founded by three former Palantir engineers, comes out of stealth with a $12M seed round led by Accel to tie together the data and AI tools behind pharma's drug development decisions
- AlphaProof Nexus resolves nine open Erdős problems with Lean-checked proofs
- Kemira says CuspAI's generative design searched 300 trillion structures and left about 20 priority candidates for PFAS removal, now going into development and testing
- Incyte pays Genesis Molecular AI $120M upfront and shares its own lab data to train Genesis's drug-design models
- AI co-scientist reaches peer-reviewed publication
- Robin links hypotheses, experiments and updated hypotheses
- Google's ERA, in Nature: a language model searching over code writes single-cell and COVID-19 forecasting software that beats the best human methods on their benchmarks
- Mistral AI buys Emmi AI, a Linz start-up whose neural networks stand in for engineering simulations
- MIT and UBC's WorldParticle uses one transformer design to simulate fluids, cloth, sand, elastic solids and protein motion
- METiS, which designs drug formulations with AI, lists in Hong Kong
- WhiteLab Genomics says AAV carriers designed by its AI platform put about 50 times more DNA into the brain than AAV9 after one injection into a vein in mice, with none found in the liver
- Recursive Superintelligence launches with $650M co-led by GV and Greycroft to build AI that improves itself, valued at $4.65B
- BiomniBench: on 100 real biomedical analysis tasks, changing the agent harness moved scores more than a model generation did
- Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B in a Series B led by Thrive Capital to move its AI-designed programmes toward the clinic
- Microsoft Research's MatterSim screen picks tantalum phosphide as a heat conductor, and a sample made at UT Dallas measures 152 W/m/K, close to silicon
- Periodic Labs is in advanced talks to raise at least $500 million at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by AMP
- MolRecBench-Wild shows old OCSR benchmarks overstate how well models read real chemistry papers
- Ge Lei and Samuel Cooper at Imperial show that an LLM guiding experiments changes its predictions and confidence with the wording and format of the question, not only with the data
- Joachim Baumann and colleagues at Stanford find that one AI rewrite of a paper, costing about $0.25, raises AI reviewers' scores
April 2026 14 entries
- Anthropic's BioMysteryBench sets Claude 99 bioinformatics questions on real data with checkable answers; the best model solved 30% of those no expert on the panel could
- Lilly will license recombinases Profluent is to design with AI, enzymes for writing long DNA into the genome: upfront undisclosed, up to $2.25B in milestones
- Fathom Therapeutics, formerly Atommap, raises a $47M Series A led by Sutter Hill Ventures for physics-based simulation of protein motion to design small molecules
- David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence comes out of stealth with a $1.1B seed round co-led by Sequoia and Lightspeed, at a $5.1B valuation
- CuspAI open-sources kUPS, a GPU molecular simulation engine built so machine-learned force fields plug straight in
- Kevin Weil leaves OpenAI as OpenAI for Science is split into other research teams
- Bioptimus reports its pathology model H-optimus-1 ranks first on two outside benchmarks, but 14th of 23 on tissue segmentation
- Anew Labs presents AI-designed oral small molecules against all three IL-17 dimers
- An amateur posts a proof of an Erdős conjecture on primitive sets that GPT-5.4 Pro gave him from one prompt, which Terence Tao says takes a new route
- Five models that predict how fast an enzyme works, Zelixir's own CataPro among them, picked xylanase mutants for the lab; under one in ten of each model's picks was 20% more active
- Lee Cronin, Chemify's founder, argues in PNAS that a Chemputer with step-by-step error correction could in principle make any stable molecule, and re-reads 117 robot runs to back it
- Polyphron and Cellino grow aligned brain tissue from four donors' stem cells, predicting the conditions for two thinly tested donors from the other two
- An LLM agent from Cronin's group, whose founder leads Chemify, turns published procedures into robot code and runs six of them
- LabGenius reports its machine-designed Nectin-4 x CD3 engager kills tumour cells at 0.7 pM and cuts tumour growth by over 90% in mice
March 2026 15 entries
- Cronin's group, whose founder leads Chemify, makes kinase inhibitors on a Chemputer and finds one that beats regorafenib in colorectal organoids
- Imaging liver cells picks up compound activity at lower doses than standard toxicity assays, but does not predict cell-free assays
- Sakana's AI Scientist, in Nature: one of three fully AI-written papers passed first-round review at an ICLR workshop, after people picked which outputs to submit
- A Fukuoka lab makes MnFeCo4Si2, a GNoME prediction, in the predicted structure: a soft magnet with a Curie temperature of 1039 K
- Xaira's X-Cell, trained on 25.6 million perturbed cells, beats earlier virtual-cell models up to five-fold on its own held-out genes, but its test loss barely improves with scale
- RxnCaption and RxnID parse reaction diagrams by locating molecules first, then letting a VLM read the relationships
- BioMap, backed by Baidu founder Robin Li, has reportedly filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO
- One model from Anew Labs and Tsinghua designs small molecules, peptides and nanobodies against a KRAS pocket, and peptides and small molecules against PCSK9
- BigHat made and measured 289 antibody designs to compare how protein language models are sampled, and the sampling method changed the hit rate
- Unreasonable Labs launches from stealth with a $13.5 million round
- Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises a $1.03B seed round to build world models, reported at a $3.5B valuation
- Cradle's CRADLE-1 preprint claims protein lead optimisation 4-7 times faster than rational design, counted in wet-lab rounds
- Imperial College's closed-loop optimiser makes 46 amine resins for capturing CO2 from air and finds a straight-line trade-off between capacity and speed
- Evo 2 brings million-base genomic context into an open foundation model
- RealPXRD-Solver, led by DP Technology, reads crystal structures off measured powder diffraction patterns, and solves 39 database entries whose structures had never been reported
February 2026 11 entries
- Generate:Biomedicines prices a $400M Nasdaq IPO
- Gemini Deep Think extends Olympiad performance across sciences
- Leash Bio's Hermes, trained only on the company's own screening data, is tested on about 14 million held-out binding examples and lands close to Boltz-2 in Leash's comparison
- Boston University physicists match single-cell foundation models with linear methods, and beat them on transferring cell labels to new species
- Isomorphic Labs' technical report says its drug design engine IsoDDE doubles AlphaFold 3 on the hardest unseen protein-ligand cases, scored by Isomorphic itself and with the method undisclosed
- Terray's TerraBind, a coarse-structure model, beats Boltz-2 by about 20% on binding-affinity correlation and runs 26x faster
- StoneWise publishes HEAD, an open-source tool that flags implausible atoms and over-strained bonds in AI-generated 3D molecules at near-quantum accuracy
- Counting the cells a compound leaves alive predicts popular bioactivity benchmarks about as well as Cell Painting models, because many of their assays measure cell death
- Shanghai AI Laboratory open-sources Intern-S1-Pro
- OpenAI and Ginkgo report GPT-5 running an autonomous lab to cut cell-free protein synthesis cost
- Eleven mathematicians release ten unpublished research questions to test whether AI can prove what they have proved
January 2026 13 entries
- OpenAI launches Prism for scientific writing
- Ricursive Intelligence, founded by AlphaChip's co-creators, raises a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed at a $4B valuation
- Smirk shows common molecular tokenizers silently erase rare chemistry, and closes the gap with 165 tokens
- Isomorphic Labs signs a multi-target drug-design deal with Johnson & Johnson across modalities, large-molecule and biologics design included: Isomorphic designs in silico, J&J runs the assays
- Nature corrects the A-Lab paper: "novel" meant new to its prediction platform, and 36 of 40 reported syntheses are confirmed
- Imperial College researchers have GPT-5 write battery fast-charging policies that, in simulation, end about 4.2 points higher in battery health than a multi-step baseline
- Converge Bio raises a $25M Series A led by Bessemer to sell drug developers ready-made AI systems for antibody design, protein yield and target discovery
- Basecamp Research's EDEN model designs enzymes that insert large DNA at a chosen spot in the human genome, and half of them worked in human cells
- Tsinghua's DrugCLIP screens about 10,000 human proteins against 500 million compounds, and its picks hit in the lab at 15% and 17.5% on two targets
- GSK licenses Noetik's virtual-cell cancer models for five years: $50M upfront and in near-term milestones, then annual fees
- Bayer signs a three-year deal to use Cradle's protein-design software across its antibody pipeline
- Polyphron's automated tissue foundry learns over three rounds which small molecules line up neurons and heart cells in grown human tissue
- Terence Tao reports Erdős problem #728 solved largely by AI, with ChatGPT writing the proof and Aristotle checking it in Lean