Confused by the number of open-sourced AlphaFold3 alternatives recently put out on the market? So was I - so I wrote a little thing about it! Link below 👇

A low-cost diabetes drug slows ageing in male monkeys and is particularly effective at delaying the effects of ageing on the brain go.nature.com/3TpoB2R

Come build with OpenAI at the Pear Hackathon on 10/12. Applications are due by 9/29. Don’t miss this opportunity to build with the latest OpenAI products, receive expert guidance, and present your projects to AI leaders on our expert judging panel. shorturl.at/mRsha

Check out our latest research by Mohsen Naghipourfar and others in our team on building language models of coding sequence. In this preprint, we introduce cdsFM, a suite of codon-resolution language models!👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Inspiring talk by Vlad Tenev tonight at Pear VC Arpan Shah “My co-founder and I solved physics problems at Stanford University before solving business problems. When we started Robinhood we had a long history working together”

🚀 Applications are now OPEN for the Spring 2025 Pear Persian Founder Circle! If you’re an ambitious founder of Iranian descent, this program will give you the tools, insights, and connections to take your startup to the next level. Apply or nominate here:

🎆4 years in the making! Thrilled to share the 1st spatial single cell aging clock⏰ nature nature.com/articles/s4158… We use #AI + spatial transcriptomics to discover what makes some cells age faster/slower in the brain🧠 Led by Eric Sun; awesome collaboration w/ Brunet Lab 🧵

Why are Western pharmaCos licensing so many Chinese drugs lately? Is China going to do all our drug discovery in the future? My thoughts in a new post. This post has languished in drafts for a while, but the Merck+Hansoh deal motivated me to finish it up atelfo.github.io/2024/12/20/wil…

Join or nominate someone great 👩‍💻 to an intimate community of female engineers, guided by successful founders & leaders Apps & nominations are open for Pear VC's Female Founders Circle AI - Spring Cohort! We're lucky to be supported by OpenAI Mercury WilmerHale!

Heads up that I have an impersonator account @ eddiie_eltoukhy (with two i's). I've reported it already, but please unfollow that account and ignore any messages you receive. Thanks to those of you who have flagged it for me!

Thrilled to see our fearless leaders and founding partners Mar Hershenson (#44) and Pejman Nozad (#46) named to the Forbes Midas List again! Well-deserved recognition for two incredible people! forbes.com/lists/midas/

Huge congratulations to our co-founder Pejman Nozad for being ranked the #1 seed investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List — for the third year in a row! 📷📷📷 From selling rugs to spotting generational founders, Pejman’s journey is one of heart, hustle, and unmatched instinct.

Today, we Tahoe Therapeutics are announcing TahoeDive, built in partnership with Kepler AI Kepler AI + opening beta access! TahoeDive is an AI agent for biologists to query & analyze our Tahoe-100M dataset using natural language, with added context from broader scientific literature. 🧵