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CTO b12 Labs | YC S25 | b12-labs.com
Prev PhD @EPFL | @mpiMathSci.

Building Crows for Chemists, Automating Synthesis
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San Francisco, CA b12-labs.com Joined April 2016
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At b12 Labs (YC S25) our mission is making the molecules AI designs. b12 Foundry is a significant step in that direction, and we’re excited to share that today!

Synthesis is a complex problem of carefully orchestrated planning and execution. We have worked intensely on planning (link to selenium), but the execution is what makes it all real.

We partnered with the HTEL at the University of Zurich to convert a state of the art automation facility into an advanced machine for producing molecules.

At the b12 Foundry, our agents and chemists collaborate day and night to produce valuable molecules, reactions and data with a flexibility and quality that few other places in the world can demonstrate.

Today, more than ever, it’s clear that the future of drug development starts with exquisitely designed molecules. We need to be able to make those complex molecules, and to make them efficiently, starting today.

If you have molecules that are hard to make, need experimental data generated, or are simply excited by robots + chemistry + AI, get in touch.

Read on in the comments 👇

#AI4Science #LabAutomation #Chemistry #DrugDiscovery #DeepTech #BioTech #AI
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Andres M Bran Verified account @drecmb
In a world of super intelligence, the bottleneck rapidly becomes execution. The gap between what we can imagine and what we can make has never been wider, but here's @b12Labs to close it 🔥
b12 Labs Verified account @b12Labs Oct 13
At b12 Labs our mission is making the molecules AI designs. b12 Foundry is a significant step in that direction, and we’re excited to share that today!

Synthesis is a complex problem of carefully orchestrated planning and execution. We have worked intensely on planning, but the execution is what makes it all real.

We partnered with the HTEL at the University of Zurich to convert a state of the art automation facility into an advanced machine for producing molecules.

At the b12 Foundry, our agents and chemists collaborate day and night to produce valuable molecules, reactions and data with a flexibility and quality that few other places in the world can demonstrate.

Today, more than ever, it’s clear that the future of drug development starts with exquisitely designed molecules.

We need to be able to make those complex molecules, and to make them efficiently, starting today. If you have molecules that are hard to make, need experimental data generated, or are simply excited by robots + chemistry + AI, get in touch.

Read on in the comments 👇
#AIforScience #LabAutomation #Chemistry #DrugDiscovery #DeepTech #BioTech #AI
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Andres M Bran Verified account @drecmb
Love this take. There has for a long time been a lot of virtue in abstract ideas that often didn't have consequence - thinking for thinking's sake.

The question now is, if you could just leapfrog your way through theory, where does that take us?
What's the next thing and how to benefit humanity with that?

As a chemist, making new and more exciting stuff in the lab is always the next step!
Dimitris Papailiopoulos Verified account @DimitrisPapail Oct 7
It sounds insane, because we're used to a particular way of doing research: of giving and receiving credit, of counting beans, of hiring, recruiting, and promoting. And the machine god came to crush that game. The old game is dead. That reasonably causes incredible amounts of dread for many folks, who understand this as the death of research.

But it's not about Research, but the way we played the game. The old game was built around scarcity, scarce compute, scarce students, scarce hours, scarce people who knew the right technique and method etc. Most of a research career went into managing and playing along these constraints. Those walls just came crushing down. One person with a good question can now do what used to take a lab and five years.

You do not need permission, you do not need a big grant, you do not need a professor or researcher title, or a team of twenty experts , or one thousand gpus to stare straight into the first light of the universe.

How absolutely incredible
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Andres M Bran Verified account @drecmb
Excited about this realease!
@b12Labs products Selenium, Palladium, Cobalt, are named after elements. Glad to see Google pick up the trend 🙂‍↕️
Logan Kilpatrick Verified account @OfficialLoganK Sep 30
Introducing Gemini 4 Argon, our new frontier model, rolling out to cyber defenders starting today, and more widely as soon as possible. I am really excited by the progress we have made here. Argon is priced at $2 in and $10 out during introductory pricing!
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