Two biotechs say they’re using AI to conjure drugs from scratch. Their documents suggest otherwise 

Two biotechs say they’re using AI to conjure drugs from scratch. Their documents suggest otherwise 

It was January 2023. Elon Musk owned Twitter, but it wasn’t yet called X. ChatGPT had been released barely six weeks earlier. 

Absci CEO Sean McClain — tall, with short, gelled hair and a beard, the kind of all-American entrepreneur who mowed lawns to buy a video game as a kid but instead bought his first truck — got up on health care’s biggest stage, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. He pitched the synthetic biology company he had founded in a tiny basement lab in 2011,…

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