Carnell: AI will speed drug breakthrough timelines from 3-5 years to under 2
Alex Carnell · GLP-1s, Peptides, and The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution · Invest Like The Best · Apr 21, 2026 · at 1:10:04
Alex Carnell, founder of biotech investment firm Braidwell, discusses the impact of AI agentic infrastructure and high-throughput automated lab experimentation.
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“The sheer ability to be more comprehensive and complete in our hypothesis set, and then the sheer ability to run Experimentation at a scale that's unprecedented, I think practically means we are going to be able to speed breakthroughs from timelines that would typically take three to five years to timelines that can take less than a couple of years.”
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