Training Data · Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Chai Discovery is working to make the drug discovery process more like engineering, aiming to move beyond trial-and-error. Co-founder Matt explained that they want to enable users to specify the desired molecule and have an AI materialize it, rather than screening millions of possibilities. He added that this approach could industrialize the process, similar to how LLMs have impacted code generation.
“So it's something of a foundation model lab for biology.”
“one of the exciting things we're trying to do at Chai is to make the drug discovery process like a little bit more like engineering.”
“And if we can instead put in, what is like the dream state of the molecule you want? And then the model can materialize that. That's going to be really powerful.”