RJ Honicky

Co-host of the Latent Space AI for Science podcast

Podcast

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Aug 11, 2026

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3 min read

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.

Latent.Space, +1

Podcast

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

Jul 21, 2026

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2 min read

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.

Latent.Space, +1

Podcast

🔬Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math

Jun 3, 2026

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5 min read

🔬Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math

Verified Generation and Compounding Intelligence

Latent.Space, +1

Podcast

🔬ESM: The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub

May 27, 2026

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4 min read

🔬ESM: The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub

Biohub’s Protein World Model: ESMC-6B, ESMFold2, 6.8B proteins, 1.1B structures, antibody design, SAEs, & the potential for programmable biology

Latent.Space, +1

Podcast

🔬 Training Transformers to solve 95% failure rate of Cancer Trials — Ron Alfa & Daniel Bear, Noetik

Apr 20, 2026

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4 min read

🔬 Training Transformers to solve 95% failure rate of Cancer Trials — Ron Alfa & Daniel Bear, Noetik

95% of cancer treatments fail to pass clinical trials, but it may be a matching problem — that Noetik is solving with autoregressive transformers like TARIO-2!

Latent.Space, +2

Podcast

🔬Why There Is No "AlphaFold for Materials" — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik

Mar 24, 2026

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3 min read

🔬Why There Is No "AlphaFold for Materials" — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik

Lessons from a Decade on the Frontier of AI for Science

Latent.Space, +2