The second-generation of Iambic Therapeutics’ AI model that predicts the combined shape of proteins and small molecules outperforms Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, the San Diego biotech’s leaders told
Endpoints News
.
The claim comes in
a new whitepaper
, alongside
a
Nature Machine Intelligence
publication with Nvidia and Caltech researchers
about the first-gen version.
The field has grown increasingly crowded, competitive and commercially focused since
the July 2021 publication of AlphaFold
. Beyond AlphaFold and Iambic’s model, CHARM Therapeutics
launched in 2022 to develop DragonFold
, a rival model developed by CEO Laksh Aithani and University of Washington’s David Baker. These tools have also attracted Big Pharma’s attention, with
Bristol Myers Squibb partnering with CHARM
and EliLilly and Novartis
both signing deals with Isomorphic last month
.
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