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Wet labs for AI Agents (YC F26)

Joined July 2026
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Today we're launching Petrichor (YC F26), a wet lab for frontier AI labs. We run experiments in parallel and return the data from every step.
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The breakthroughs I most want to see from AI are in medicine, not maths. @Petrichorbios are building wet labs for agents to make that possible. Congrats on the launch @Wilhelmmlem, Jesper and Elias!
Today we're launching Petrichor (YC F26), a wet lab for frontier AI labs. We run experiments in parallel and return the data from every step.
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The only way I see us getting to Biological Superintelligence is IF we properly get the data from wet labs into the frontier models
Today we're launching Petrichor (YC F26), a wet lab for frontier AI labs. We run experiments in parallel and return the data from every step.
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Petrichor retweeted
enabling AI to help us understand biology will require efficient wet labs. excited to see this!
Today we're launching Petrichor (YC F26), a wet lab for frontier AI labs. We run experiments in parallel and return the data from every step.
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The intersection of AI and biology is going to produce some of the most interesting companies of this decade. We're just getting started.
Today we're launching Petrichor (YC F26), a wet lab for frontier AI labs. We run experiments in parallel and return the data from every step.
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Models use the lab directly through our Python library, writing each experiment as a job and submitting it themselves. We capture as much data as we can from every run, so labs end up with the best possible training data for improving their models.
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Customers own all the data we produce for them, and we never share it or train on it. If you work on biology at an AI lab, email me at [email protected]
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We gave GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 the X-ray data for 30 real drug crystals and 8 hours each to work out the atomic structure. Astra solved 10. Claude solved 3. Astra also handed in 18 wrong answers. Claude handed in 3.
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Introducing Blackbox-Science. Models get scientific measurements, tools, and a fixed budget to produce a result we can check. Mean, one run per model: Claude Fable 5.1: 0.363 GPT-6 Astra: 0.385 We're open-sourcing our crystal-structure reconstruction environment.
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Our reading of these runs: current models can already carry out a crystallographer's workflow offline, building tools as needed, and finish about a third of a hard panel. On the rest they mostly submit wrong answers with some confidence. Well short of solved, far from nothing.
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The whole powder-diffraction environment is now public: all 30 compounds, the grader and its test battery, the reference structures with every source DOI, and the full visible traces of both runs. If you think we graded something wrong, the material to show it is there. github.com/Qokedas/blackbox-…
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