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Proxima

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Proxima

@proximabio

Decode and design the interfaces of life

New York, NY

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Proxima
@proximabio
Jan 13
Excited to announce that our team at Proxima (formerly VantAI) has raised $80M in new funding led by @DCVC, with @nvidia, Braidwell, @Roivant, @aixventureshq, Yosemite, Magnetic Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, @ModiVentures, and others. We are building the platform
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Proxima
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Mar 21, 2025
Announcing Neo-1: the world’s most advanced atomistic foundation model, unifying structure prediction and all-atom de novo generation for the first time - to decode and design the structure of life 🧵(1/10)
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Proxima
@proximabio
Sep 29, 2023
📢 Exciting News! 📢 We're launching a monthly lecture series on Generative AI in Drug Discovery hosted by Prof. Michael Bronstein & Prof. Bruno Correia, where researchers will present their latest work. Our inaugural session is 📅 next Friday 📅, by @befcorreia and
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Proxima
@proximabio
Apr 3, 2025
We are excited to announce the first alpha release of 💥 peppr - package for evaluation of predicted poses 💥 an open source framework for structural model evaluation Find out more at peppr.vant.ai built on @biotite_python, peppr dramatically simplifies evaluation
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Proxima
@proximabio
Apr 1, 2025
Drug discovery turned out to be too hard, so VantAI has made the important decision to pivot from molecular glues to regular glues, and today we are thrilled to announce a landmark $800B biobucks deal with Elmer’s. CTO Luca Naef (@NaefLuca) explains, “When we first prompted
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Proxima
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Mar 21, 2025
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Neo-1 presents the next generation of atomistic foundation models. A latent diffusion model that simultaneously learns to reason about molecules and their structures. Enabling not just structure prediction, but de-novo design of small molecules, proteins, and more at the same
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Proxima
@proximabio
Mar 13, 2024
📢 The VantAI team is growing in Europe! A picture of today's team lunch in Zurich with @mmbronstein in town. We're hiring for Machine Learning, Engineering, Comp Bio/Chem and all other scientific positions. E-Mail at [email protected]
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Proxima
@proximabio
Mar 21, 2025
Neo-1: Design and Decode the Structure of Life
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Proxima
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Mar 21, 2025
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Neo-1 is trained to generate molecules and their structures in full-atom resolution from various starting prompts: sequence, structure, properties or masked versions. This makes Neo-1 the most controllable and general atomistic foundation model, replacing a large series of
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Proxima
@proximabio
Nov 7, 2023
📢 We are excited to announce the next two lectures, from @charlieharris01, @Buttenschoen and @lipmanya, and a new home for the GenAI in Drug Discovery series hosted by @mmbronstein and @befcorreia Find all details and past lectures at genaiindrugdiscovery.com 📅 On Nov 17th,
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Proxima
@proximabio
Apr 22, 2024
📢 Excited to announce the next speaker: 🗣️ @GabriCorso will talk about his recent work on assessing and addressing generalization in protein-ligand docking 📅 May 17th, 2024; 11am ET / 5pm CET / 8am PST Sign up genaiindrugdiscovery.com As always, moderated by @mmbronstein
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Proxima
@proximabio
Feb 13, 2024
We are thrilled to announce a new milestone collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (@bmsnews), utilizing our geometric deep learning platform for the rational design of novel molecular glues. Founder & CEO Zachary Carpenter, and Co-Founder & CTO Luca Naef, sat down with
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Proxima
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Mar 21, 2025
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We're also excited to give a glimpse of NeoLink, our experimental data platform using cross-linking mass spectrometry (XLMS) to gather structural data at cellular scale, orders of magnitudes larger than current standards. Neo-1 efficiently integrates these sparse datasets into
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Proxima
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Mar 21, 2025
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This would’ve not been possible without the team behind it: @clemensisert, Michael Pun, @emaros96, Thomas Castiglione, Douglas Tischer, @AkdelMehmet, @dannykovtun, @MPegoraro42, Thomas Duignan, @a1zhang, @OleinikovasV, Graham Holt, @ShinaYusuf_, Patrick Kunzmann, Arjun Ramesh,
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