Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed
HealthcareAIGuy · x · 2026-10-23
Former OpenAI science head Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences with a $215M Series A led by Lightspeed. The company builds AI-powered robotic labs for drug discovery: AI designs experiments, robots run them, and the results feed back to train better models.
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