Protein Design

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Chu: Xaira is building three core AI platforms for drug discovery
“There are three main AI platforms that we're building here. The first one is Protein Design, work that spun out of our co-founder Dr. David Baker's group from UW. A lot of the current generation of protein designers are here in the company. So there, the think…”
Ci Chu Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 3:36 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu)
Chu: 70 years of curated data drove rapid protein design AI progress
“And in Protein design space. I think that's where we have seen the most rapid progress so far. That's partially because we have a lot of data, high quality data over 70 years curated by the entire community.”
Ci Chu Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 9:10 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu)
a16z Opinion
Hsu: AI for protein design and binding has real-world heft
“There's heft in anything to do with proteins, right? Obviously protein binding, but increasingly in protein design, right? And I think there's real heft there.”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 39:16 Faster Science, Better Drugs

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