Nicholas Larus-Stone is the Founder & CEO of Sphinx Bio, a startup helping life science labs unlock the full potential of their data to accelerate discovery. He’s also the Founder of Bits in Bio, a global community advancing science through software.

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Episode Links:

• Nicholas' LinkedIn
• Sphinx Bio
• Bits in Bio
• Folding Playground
• Google Co-Scientist Paper
• Recursion
• Defining TechBio

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Preview & Introduction
• (04:34) - Why Biotech & Life Science
• (07:33) - About Small Molecule Discovery Companies Octant & Benevolent AI
• (11:47) - Why Is Software Second in Biotech?
• (14:35) - What Engineers Bring to Biotech
• (16:00) - Is Science Data-Starved or Data Rich?
• (19:23) - How Scientists Work With Data
• (28:10) - Observations That Led to Founding Sphinx Bio
• (31:48) - AI Co-Scientists
• (37:57) - How Platforms like Sphinx Are Powered
• (40:31) - Foundation Model Companies' Interest in Science
• (43:58) - How Sphinx Leverages AI Models
• (45:59) - Managing Hallucinations
• (47:52) - Scientists: Give AI Another Try
• (49:02) - The Business and Cycles of TechBio
• (53:32) - Google's Co-Scientist, Notebook LM, and Other Science Ventures
• (57:43) - Protein Folding Playground
• (00:58:58) - "Wrapper" Companies In Era of Foundation Model Commoditization
• (01:01:56) - Bits in Bio Community & Growth
• (01:04:25) - Try Sphinx's Platform; Work for Sphinx; Support Your Local Scientist

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