Builder doubles down: AI plus robotics can 100x rare disease discovery pace
danielmckinn0n · x · 2026-11-07
Responding to Anshul Kundaje's pushback, Daniel McNinnon says they're saying the same thing: the path to doing all of this at scale is through AI and robotics. The previous pace of discovery was far too slow and expensive, and he is fairly confident it can be 100x'd.
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