SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

“For the first time, we have a frontier model on a frontier LLM that someone can access in natural language,” Nadia Harhen, SandboxAQ’s general manager of AI simulation, told TechCrunch. Previously, users of SandboxAQ’s LQMs would have had to provide their own digital infrastructure to run the models.

SandboxAQ’s customers tend to be computational scientists, research scientists, or experimentalists. Generally, these people work at large pharmaceutical or industrial companies and are searching for new materials that can become marketable products.

“Our customers come to us because they’ve tried all the other software out there, and the complexity of their problem is such that it didn’t work or didn’t yield positive results for them when that translation went to take place in the real world,” said Harhen.