ai& and Tenstorrent launch JapanFold, an open-source sovereign AI drug-discovery platform in Japan
DavidBennett__ · x · 2026-09-10
ai& and Tenstorrent launched JapanFold, an open-source drug-discovery platform running entirely within Japan on Tenstorrent Galaxy superclusters, offering sovereign, low-cost access to leading structural-biology models.
Key points:
- Serves Boltz-2, OpenFold3, ESMFold-2, Protenix-v2, RoseTTAFold3 and more for folding/binding, plus BoltzGen and RFdiffusion 3 for de novo drug design
- Models scale nearly linearly on Tenstorrent hardware, enabling big cost savings over conventional cloud
- Accessible via a browser Workbench (no sign-up), a single HTTP API, and agent skills callable from Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
- CEO David Bennett frames it as removing the trade-off between frontier AI and data sovereignty; Jim Keller backs the hardware bet
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