Vinod Khosla Says AI Is Creating a Hyperabundance of New Drugs, but Testing Is Still 18thCentury

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  • Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly expanding drug discovery.
  • He argued that the industry needs a more human-relevant approach to evaluating potential treatments.
  • He pointed to Vivodyne, a biotechnology company developing technology to test drugs using living human tissues at scale.
  • "We are still using 18th-century style animal testing," he wrote in a blog post on X.
  • "Instead, @Vivodyne is evaluating drugs in livinghuman tissues at industrial scale"
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