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Brandon
Brandon appears in 2 indexed conversations across Latent Space. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
🔬Searching the Space of All Possible Materials — Prof. Max Welling, CuspAI
AI is turning materials discovery into a search problem spanning semiconductors, energy, drugs, and carbon capture, as conventional scaling makes matter an upstream constraint.CuspAI has raised $130 million in about 20 months, but its moat depends on hard-to-build data, experiments, and human-guided workflows; lighthouse validation and new verticals remain key watchpoints.
🔬Beyond AlphaFold: How Boltz is Open-Sourcing the Future of Drug Discovery
Gabriele CorsoJeremy WohlwendBrandon
Boltz turns AlphaFold 3’s closed release into an open-source opportunity, combining generative structure-and-sequence design with affinity prediction, search, and workflows built for working scientists rather than GitHub users alone.Broad wet-lab testing found nanomolar binders on two-thirds of nine unseen targets, but the platform still produces candidates—not drugs—leaving ADME, toxicity, cellular context, and iterative validation as the commercialization bottlenecks.