OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Start New AI Drug Discovery Company
In brief
- OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to start a new company that uses AI for drug discovery.
- Several other OpenAI researchers will join him.
- He plans to raise about $200 million for the new company.
- The new company may work on finding new uses for existing drugs, which can be faster than developing new ones.
- The company will likely launch soon.
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