Paris summit draws European 'AI Champions' including health care bigwigs

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DeepMind veteran raises $40 million for AI protein design

Simon Kohl, a former DeepMind engineer who worked on the company’s landmark AlphaFold research, raised $40 million for his new AI protein design company, Latent Labs. Kohl told STAT’s Brittany Trang that unlike others in the field, including DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, the company isn’t “chasing bio bucks” by chaining itself to the pipelines of major drugmakers — or pursuing clinical assets of its own. Instead, Latent Labs hopes to focus on more fundamental research and sell access to its models for proteins, RNA, and DNA design. The company also eventually hopes to get into small molecule design.  Read more here

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