Brandon Anderson

Staff Scientist, Atomic AI · 5 appearances on the record.

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Brandon Anderson holds a PhD in physics from the University of Maryland and specializes in machine learning for molecular systems. He serves as Staff Scientist at Atomic AI developing foundation models for RNA structure prediction and co-hosts the AI for Science track on Latent Space.

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Opinion
Anderson: $1M+ salaries can make sense when GPU spend dominates burn
“In terms of like total spend on GPUs, it can still be a total, a small fraction of your burn. So sometimes it kind of makes sense.”
Brandon Anderson Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 53:14 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
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Anderson: 20% of pre-ChatGPT global compute went to simulating water
“Once I did an estimate, I think pre like ChatGPT, something like 20% of the world's computing power just went to simulating water.”
Brandon Anderson Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 40:45 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White

Appearances (5)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu) Jul 21, 2026 7m
🔬 "The Most Innovative Diffusion Research Is Happening in Drug Discovery, Not Image Gener Jun 30, 2026 12m
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math Jun 3, 2026 4m
🔬 Training Transformers to solve 95% failure rate of Cancer Trials — Ron Alfa & Daniel Be Apr 20, 2026 6m
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andr Jan 28, 2026 8m
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