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Genesis Molecular AI: Diffusion models for drug discovery, with Llama lead Sergey Edunov and PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win

Latent Space interviews Evan Feinberg and Sergey Edunov (formerly Meta's Llama lead) about Genesis Molecular AI, a startup applying diffusion models to drug discovery. The conversation covers PEARL's zero-shot performance on the OpenBind benchmark and the broader implications of co-folding models crossing accuracy thresholds for molecular design. The piece argues that the most interesting diffusion research is happening in scientific domains rather than language modeling.