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Latent Labs Releases State-of-the-Art Web-Based AI Model for Novel Protein Design
Latent Labs launched LatentX, a web-based AI model that enables users to design entirely new proteins using natural language, achieving state-of-the-art performance in lab testing. Unlike AlphaFold which predicts existing protein structures, LatentX creates novel molecular designs including nanobodies and antibodies with precise atomic structures. The company plans to license the technology to academic institutions, biotech startups, and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate therapeutic development.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): The release demonstrates advancing AI capabilities in biological design, but focuses on controlled scientific applications with human oversight rather than autonomous systems that could pose control risks.
Skynet Date (+0 days): Shows continued progress in AI applications across diverse domains beyond language and vision, contributing to the overall acceleration of AI capability development across scientific fields.
AGI Progress (+0.02%): Represents significant progress in AI's ability to understand and manipulate complex biological systems, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in generating novel molecular structures from natural language descriptions.
AGI Date (+0 days): The successful application of foundational AI models to complex biological design problems indicates accelerating progress in AI's ability to handle sophisticated real-world tasks requiring deep domain understanding.