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Why AlphaFold Didn’t Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology. In this special panel moderated by Brandon Anderson, they explore why AlphaFold’s breakthrough was only the beginning, why scaling compute and data alone won’t solve biology, and how the next generation of AI models could transform our understanding of proteins, cells, and human disease.
Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk
It’s hard to believe that Periodic was only launched last September: One year later, it is considered one of the pre-eminent AI scientist labs, with dizzying talent density and astonishing progress in the autonomous lab buildout: Most people are familiar with the standard credentials of Liam and Dogus, but we found an incredible “talent slope” while learning more about Periodic, where each successive employee seems more impressive than the last:
Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for new tickets only, no refunds! See you in 2 weeks!
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks:
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
We are excited to have Anthropic share their latest AI x Finance work at AI Engineer New York, coming up in 2 weeks! In case you’ve been under a rock, here’s a non-exhaustive list of what Anthropic has been shipping since closing the largest fundraise of all time in May at $47B ARR: * June: Launched Claude Tag and Sonnet 5 and Fable 5 * July: Opus 5, /checkup. crossed $65B ARR * Last month: Fable/Mythos 5.1, and EFS (upcoming pod) * IPO target $2T, end 2026 ARR estimated $100B * Cowork/chat merged before did *