Claude Drug Discovery Trials Cut Batch Record Review Time by 89%
Anthropic reports early Claude results with six drug developers. At Enveda it cut batch-record review time 89% and caught seven issues humans missed.
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AI Drug Discovery Money Concentrates as Anthropic Enters Biotech
Anthropic bought Mithril Medicine, AstraZeneca signed an AI deal with insitro worth up to $1.86B, and AI protein design funding passed $1B in 2026.
AI-Discovered Drug Rentosertib Begins 320-Patient Phase III Trial
Insilico Medicine dosed the first patient in a 320-person Phase III trial of rentosertib, an IPF drug whose target and molecule were both found by AI.
AI Drug Discovery Reaches Phase 3 as Protein Design Hit Rates Rise
Insilico's rentosertib entered Phase 3 in September 2026. AI protein design hit rates are rising, while Isomorphic Labs still hasn't started human trials.
AI Drug Discovery: AstraZeneca Pays insitro $40M for MASH Targets
AstraZeneca will pay insitro $40M upfront, plus up to $1.46B in milestones, to use its Virtual Human AI platform to find MASH and cardiomyopathy drug targets.
AI Drug Discovery Reaches Phase III While Protein Design Matures
Insilico's AI-designed rentosertib entered Phase III in July 2026, while Isomorphic Labs has yet to dose a patient and AI antibody design advances.
AI Protein Design Draws Pharma Deals and New Enzymes, October 2026
Baker lab's AI-designed proteases, Chai's GSK deal and Generate's $1.2B Zealand pact show AI protein design moving from structure prediction to drug deals.
AstraZeneca-insitro AI Pact Pays $40M Upfront for MASH Targets
AstraZeneca will pay insitro $40M upfront and up to $1.46B in milestones to use its Virtual Human AI platform to find MASH and cardiomyopathy drug targets.
AI drug discovery deal: AstraZeneca pays insitro $40M upfront
AstraZeneca will pay insitro $40M upfront, plus up to $1.46B in milestones, to use AI to find drug targets for MASH and cardiomyopathies.
AstraZeneca insitro AI Deal Bets $40M on MASH and Heart Targets
AstraZeneca will pay insitro $40M upfront to use its Virtual Human AI platform to find MASH and cardiomyopathy targets. Milestones could add about $1.46B.
Boltz Open-Source AI Models Win Pfizer Deal and $28M Seed
Boltz PBC, an MIT spinout building open-source biomolecular AI, raised a $28M seed at a $125M valuation and signed a drug-design collaboration with Pfizer.
AI Drug Discovery: Absci Rally Tests the AWS Squeeze Thesis
Absci shares and analyst targets are climbing even as AWS pushes into AI drug discovery via a Novo Nordisk hub, challenging the hyperscaler squeeze thesis.
AI Drug Discovery: Lilly's $2.75B Insilico Deal Signals a Shift
Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $2.75B with Insilico Medicine, paying $115M upfront to license AI-discovered oral drugs, reportedly a GLP-1 candidate.
Chai Discovery Valuation: $3.8B Bet on AI Antibody Design
Chai Discovery raised $400M in a July Series C, with OpenAI among backers, valuing the AI antibody-design startup at $3.8B before a mature clinical pipeline.
WhiteLab Genomics Raises $26M for AI-Designed Gene Delivery
Paris-based WhiteLab Genomics raised a $26M Series B led by AVP to expand animal testing of its AI-designed gene delivery vehicles and grow pharma partnerships.
Open Protein Structure Prediction Models Now Rival AlphaFold 3
ByteDance's Protenix-v1, Biohub's ESMFold2 and other new open protein structure models report AlphaFold 3-level accuracy and allow free commercial use.
AlphaFold Database Adds Protein Complexes From 2,800 Viruses
DeepMind, NVIDIA, EMBL-EBI and partners released predicted protein-complex structures for 2,800+ viruses in the AlphaFold Database to aid pandemic readiness.
AI Drug Discovery Hits Phase 3 as Protein Design Funding Surges
AI-designed drugs reach Phase 3 and protein-design startups raise billions, but validation gaps and Anthropic's disputed CRISPR claim temper the speed story.
Viral Protein Structure Dataset Maps 2,800 Viruses With BioNeMo
NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI released AI-predicted protein complex structures for 2,800+ viruses in the AlphaFold Database, plus an open BioNeMo
AbbVie AI Drug Discovery Push Adds Iambic, Valkai and AISB Bind
In September 2026, AbbVie signed AI deals with Iambic and Valkai and joined AISB Bind, a federated binding-prediction project, after pharma models beat public