Apoorv Agrawal(@apoorv03):Final MS&E 435 class is live. @joshim5 of @chaidiscovery and Eric Abrams of @AnthropicAI discuss AI applied to biology! https://t.co/wK7gdlVbAn The idea: stop discovering drugs by trial and error in the lab and start designing them on a computer, the way you'd design a car or a chip. Today a new drug takes 10 to 15 years. They make the case for getting that under 5. The next step is wild: give AI its own hands in the lab, wiring it straight to the machines so it can run real experiments and design medicines start to finish. I asked them to name the next blockbuster. Their answers: a drug that makes you ripped, and a drug that makes you sleep. Both only half joking 😅

2026.07.20 17:17

Final MS&E 435 class is live. @joshim5 of @chaidiscovery and Eric Abrams of @AnthropicAI discuss AI applied to biology! The idea: stop discovering drugs by trial and error in the lab and start designing them on a computer, the way you'd design a car or a chip. Today a new drug takes 10 to 15 years. They make the case for getting that under 5. The next step is wild: give AI its own hands in the lab, wiring it straight to the machines so it can run real experiments and design medicines start to finish. I asked them to name the next blockbuster. Their answers: a drug that makes you ripped, and a drug that makes you sleep. Both only half joking 😅