Luca Naef @ NeurIPS
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Co-Founder & CTO, @vant_ai Forbes 30u30 but won't go to jail | prev. ETH Zurich Stanford McKinsey AI x Bio/Chem. vi/vim
San Francisco, NYC, ZRH
Joined September 2015
Extremely excited to give a glimpse of what we've been working on over the past 2 years: unifying structure-prediction and de-novo generation. Neo-1 is an all-atom, fully generative model
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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Help me help them out gang!
We're so close to 1000, but we just reached 2000 on LinkedIn (that ratio is concerning, yes). Please @giffmana need your help here :D
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CUDA 13.1 is here. It is the biggest expansion of CUDA since it launched in 2006. We are introducing CUDA Tile, a new way to program GPUs that makes powerful AI and accelerated computing easier for more developers to use.
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Always a huge pleasure working with you and the @vant_ai team!
GPU-MMseqs2 & CuEquivariance have been a huge unlock for us, congrats to the team @NVIDIAHealth - they have also constantly been shipping awesome new things to make models even faster like attention pair bias
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GPU-MMseqs2 & CuEquivariance have been a huge unlock for us, congrats to the team @NVIDIAHealth - they have also constantly been shipping awesome new things to make models even faster like attention pair bias
✨Run the world’s fastest protein structure prediction with #NVIDIARTXPRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition to fold proteins up to 4.8x faster than L40S. 96 GB GDDR7 keeps MSAs + OpenFold2 on-GPU, cutting cloud spend. #AI4Science #DrugDiscovery
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Super excited for this - @HaldaTx is a pioneer in pushing the frontier of what can be done with proximity modulators - thrilled to push even further together
We're thrilled to partner with @HaldaTx to expand the reach of their groundbreaking RIPTAC platform. Together, we're working to identify new therapeutic target-effector combinations that will help enable this innovative proximity-based approach to unlock new treatment
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Thank you so much for your close partnership! Not possible with you and the incredible community behind these foundational technologies!
Neo just got much faster!💥 Working closely with @NVIDIAHealth , VantAI adopted #cuEquivariance, leading to massive speedups. Today's announcement is a big advancement for the field!
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Second expansion and couldn't be more excited - it's been a privilege to be working with such a talented team at Blueprint!
Excited to announce our second expansion in three years with @BlueprintMeds. Together, we will prioritize novel target-effector pairs for molecular glue development, aiming at previously undruggable targets, using our proximity modulator discovery platform powered by our Neo-1
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last night's @airstreet nyc ai meetup hosted at @awscloud showcased sota coding agents, workflow agents, generative user interfaces and protein and molecular design tools. some seriously impressive demos from: - @ashedwardst of @Fern_Labs with long-running computer agents -
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🗽 @airstreet nyc ai meetup 4/15 lineup complete, welcoming: - @NaefLuca, cto/co-founder of @vant_ai (fresh off neo-1 model launch!) - @Albertorizzoli, ceo/co-founder of @V7Labs 150 members of the research, product, eng ai community in new york! rsvp: airstreet(dot)com/nycai
our first 2 speakers @airstreet nyc ai meetup on 4/15 - @tylerangert of @patinasystems, spontaneous software, formerly of @replit - @ashedwardst of @fern_labs, multi-agent systems to write software, formerly of @palantirtech +2 more coming soon! rsvp: airstreet(dot)com/nycai
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Congratulations to the entire VantAI team on an incredible step forward for generative molecular design. And proud that @NVIDIAHealth was able to play a small part to ensure Neo-1 goes brrrrrrrrrrrr....
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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The @vant_ai team is breaking my X feed 🤣. Congrats on Neo-1 _everywhere_ @NaefLuca @zwcarpenter @mmbronstein and many more!
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Combining prediction, generation, and modalities (sequence, structure, nucleic acids, small molecules, proteins) is the future. Congrats to the authors! Looking forward to the technical report.
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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Really cool to see Neo-1 released. Latent diffusion to combine structure prediction and molecular generation across modalities. #ai #drugdiscovery #genai
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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this wouldn’t have been possible without the help amazing folks at @NVIDIAHealth, GPU-mmseqs2 MSA was a critical piece for both inference and data gen
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The heroes of this story of course is the absolutely cracked group of people that made this possible. And you can join them! recruiting@vant.ai
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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Big news from @vant_ai: Neo-1 integrates SOTA structure prediction and all-atom molecular generation into a single unified model -- an industry first to the best of my knowledge: https://t.co/Z9kthghP5h
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The era of rewiring protein interactions to treat disease is emerging all around us. AI will play a critical role in this unfolding story and we are thrilled to announce Neo-1, the first foundation model designed specifically with this incredible new modality in mind. Congrats to
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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The heroes of this story of course is the absolutely cracked group of people that made this possible. And you can join them! recruiting@vant.ai
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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