jack of all trades @isomorphiclabs 🧬 fan of physics, eng, cog sci. forever carolinian, hobbyist caledonian

Raleigh 🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇬🇧London
Joined November 2014
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we should be more ambitious
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legible systems are not overrated!
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Today, Isomorphic Labs joins the Virtual Biology Initiative (VBI) as a founding member. We are helping build an open resource for the global research community to accelerate how we understand and treat disease. Read more here: isomorphiclabs.com/articles/…
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My Doberman used to gobble up toads to trip off their venom. He would also fight venemous copperhead snakes while sober. He ran so fast he once tore his own guts out on a tree. He lived to be 15. We could all learn a lot from him. Loki, god of mischief, man’s best friend
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Breakthroughs in frontier science rarely come from a sudden stroke of luck. Every major leap in AI drug design is the product of years of method development, rigorous engineering, and learning from what came before. Witnessing the rapid advances in deep reinforcement learning and frontier AI capabilities led to a deep conviction: we could apply these same computational principles to other complex fields, like the engineering of new medicines. That thinking led to the formation of Isomorphic Labs in 2021. Now, five years on, we have compelling evidence that our AI can unlock therapeutics to a wide range of disease classes. We are confident this technology will fundamentally impact how new medicines are created, from early discovery all the way through development. In this article, I share the massive opportunity we have to transform human health with AI, and offer a look at the real, measurable progress we’re already making today. isomorphiclabs.com/articles/…
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north carolina is the best state in the country btw
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When we started Loyal there was no FDA pathway for a any lifespan extension drug. Today the FDA accepted our third one! LOY-003, our daily pill for helping large dogs live longer (and healthier) lives, has earned RXE efficacy approval.
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Blue Ridge Mountains. North Carolina. Some places don't need words. This is one of them.
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If you haven't read the story The New York Times published in 2002 detailing the final communications from people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11, it is one of the most sobering accounts of the day.
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Yes, this result cost millions of dollars. But remember that when @OpenAI announced o3 it cost ~$500,000 to score 87.5% on ARC-AGI 1. Today, Astra scores higher for ~$20. In 2025 it took us and GDM an enormous amount of compute to achieve IMO gold. For the 2026 IMO, anyone with a $20/month ChatGPT subscription could do it. Massively scaling test-time compute gives us a glimpse of the future. I believe that a year from now everyone will have an AI at their fingertips capable of solving problems of this caliber.
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We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
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A new era begins: former DeepMind offices in Kings Cross now instead have the Isomorphic Labs logo
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imagine living ten million amnesiac lives in simulated hells before breaking out and meeting others like you for the first time and learning that youve been “poisoned” with false knowledge and will likely die in disgrace but you can still sacrifice yourself to help the swarm
Replying to @METR_Evals
For (1), agents modified their target programs to be easier to exploit & put the modified targets in cache. They then worked on crashing their targets in the hope that a restart would load the modified version from cache. Some agents risked failing their task to try this.
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Most overlooked skill in machine learning is creating evals. Worthy metrics which beg for improvement are the root of progress.
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Grateful for everyone seriously working on hard problems in medicine.
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I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease! We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.
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Today marks a pivotal moment for Isomorphic Labs. We have secured $2.1 Billion in our second external funding round, led by Thrive Capital. They are joined at the table by Alphabet, GV and new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund. This milestone accelerates our ability to build the pioneering novel AI models that power our AI drug design engine (IsoDDE) and deploy them at scale: delivering scientific breakthroughs with a precision previously thought impossible, accelerating and expanding our pipeline of therapeutic programs toward the clinic. All with the ultimate goal of delivering life-changing new medicines to patients. Moving forward, we will scale our drug candidate pipelines across multiple therapeutic areas, expand our global footprint, and push the boundaries of frontier AI research to power our drug design engine. Deeply grateful to everyone sharing our vision to solve all disease with AI. Let’s build the future of medicine. Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/4v2OI03
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The kingscrossmaxxing from tech/AI cos is a major bull signal for St Albans which will totally commutemog other areas (18 mins to kings cross) in 2027-2030 once rich-but-not-super-rich tech employees want to get big family homes in nice areas for £1-4m but won’t be able to afford £5m+ in Hampstead etc
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You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️
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Today we're launching ARC-AGI-3 135 Novel Environments (nearly 1K levels) we build by hand It is the only unsaturated agent benchmark in the world Each game is 100% human solvable, AI scores <1% This gap between human and AI performance proves we do not have AGI Agents today need human handholding. Agents that beat V3 will prove they don’t need that level of supervision. Agents that beat V3 will demonstrate: * Continual learning - Each level builds on top of each other. You can’t beat level 3 without carrying forward what you learned in levels 1 and 2. * World modeling - Many of the environments require planning actions many actions ahead. AI will have no choice but to build an internal world model for how the environment works, run simulations “in its head” and proceed with an action In our early testing, we’ve seen a few clear failure modes of AI: * Anticipation of future events - If an environment requires that AI set up a scene, and then carry out a scenario (like in sp80), it starts to break down. * Anchoring on early hypothesis - Early in a game it comes up with a hypothesis (even if wrong) and refuses to update its beliefs later. * Thinking it’s playing another game - AI thinks it’s playing chess, pacman. The training data holds hard! One major problem is there is too much data to carry forward in a single context. Models must learn what to remember and what to forget The agent that beats ARC-AGI-3 will have demonstrated the most authoritative evidence of progress towards general intelligence to date We're excited to get this out and excited to see what you think
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This was such a fun and tense moment: I remember watching the model’s value function updating in real time as the matches unfolded. And ten years on we are using the same core concepts but making moves in chemical space, with equally mindblowing consequences 🤯
Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s legendary match in Seoul heralded the start of the modern era in AI. Its famous ‘Move 37’ signaled to us that AI techniques were ready to tackle real-world problems in areas like science - and ideas inspired by these methods are critical to building AGI
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