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Anthropic wants to disrupt drug discovery. Industry experts say the real challenge co | Ctech
Anthropic has launched an internal drug discovery initiative using its AI models, but industry experts argue the company is solving only the early-stage discovery problem while ignoring the decade-long, $2.7bn clinical trial phase where 90% of candidates fail.
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The Wire takeaway
Anthropic is entering drug discovery with enormous capital but solving the wrong problem - molecular screening, not clinical trials. If you're a biotech founder with compounds failing clinical tests, Anthropic's AI won't help you; if you're building tools for trial design, patient matching, or dosage optimisation, you now have a well-funded competitor chasing the early stage instead of the hard stage.
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