OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development

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    "title": "OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development - SiliconANGLE",
    "excerpt": "OpenAI Group PBC revealed today that it has acquired drug development software startup Orchestra Bio Inc. Orchestra builds artificial intelligence agents that help pharmaceutical teams keep development programs on track,. Its staff and technology will now sit inside OpenAI’s Rosalind life sciences unit. Much of OpenAI’s case for the deal comes down to how long drugs take to reach patients. Getting a new medicine through to U.S. regulatory approval takes 10 to 15 years on average by the company’s count, and programs pass between departments and outside partners whose systems often do not connect. Orchestra’s agents take over the monitoring of studies, and TechCrunch’s write-up of the deal credits them with keeping track of finances and sorting out clinical trial scheduling problems as well. In OpenAI’s telling, a failed manufacturing batch that threatens to push a trial back would set the software to work out which activities and timelines are hit and weigh ways to respond. People still make the final call. Scientists should be able to use the combined tools to make discoveries and “manage the work needed to turn them into treatments,” OpenAI said. Terms were not disclosed, and OpenAI gave no timeline for when Orchestra’s agents will show up in its products. The Rosalind business that Orchestra is joining dates to April , when GPT-Rosalind launched as a reasoning model for...",
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