Structure and antibody-design models from Chai Discovery, with Chai-2 reporting high zero-shot antibody hit rates.
Chai-1 and Chai-2 are structure prediction and protein design models from Chai Discovery. Chai-1 (2024) is a diffusion model for biomolecular structure prediction released with open weights, and Chai-2 (2025) adds generative design conditioned on a chosen target epitope, producing antibodies and other binders from scratch. Chai-2 reported roughly 16% zero-shot binder hit rates across dozens of targets in wet-lab tests, meaning a meaningful fraction of computer-designed antibodies bound their target without experimental optimisation. The intended users are biologics teams seeking new antibodies, including against cancer antigens. Independent replication of the Chai-2 hit rates is pending, and developability of the designed antibodies has not been reported. For a newcomer: Chai-2 claims it can design a working antibody from a target's structure on the first try in about one attempt in six.
Diffusion structure prediction; generative design conditioned on target epitope.
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Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery and the tags foundation-model, protein-design.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery and the tags foundation-model, protein-design.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery and the tag foundation-model.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery and the tag foundation-model.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery and the tag foundation-model.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow, AI-driven drug & target discovery.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow and the tag foundation-model.
Shares Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico, AI in oncology roadmap: pattern readers → foundation models → agents in the workflow and the tag foundation-model.
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Chai Discovery's multi-modal structure prediction model; code and weights are released, with commercial use permitted under its terms.