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Anthropic Acquires AI Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio for $400M to Expand Healthcare Capabilities
Anthropic has acquired stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal to strengthen its healthcare and life sciences division. The 10-person team, including founders from Genentech's computationa...
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 existin...
FutureHouse Launches 'Finch' AI Tool for Biology Research
FutureHouse, a nonprofit backed by Eric Schmidt, has released a biology-focused AI tool called 'Finch' that analyzes research papers to answer scientific questions and generate figures. The CEO compared it to a "first ye...
DeepMind Alumnus Launches Latent Labs with $50M to Revolutionize Computational Biology
Latent Labs, founded by former Google DeepMind scientist Simon Kohl, has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding to build AI foundation models for computational biology. The startup aims to make biology programm...