Recursion (NASDAQ:RXRX), a leading clinical stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery, today presented a demonstration of LOWE (Large Language Model-Orchestrated Workflow Engine), its new software designed to perform complex drug discovery tasks using a natural language interface. LOWE is powered by Recursion’s proprietary biological and chemical data and can orchestrate experiments using Recursion’s automated wet laboratories, unleashing the power of the Recursion Operating System in an easy-to-use tool.
“Recursion has spent the last 10 years building one of the world’s largest biological and chemical datasets, along with automated wet-lab and dry-lab tools that empower our scientists to move quickly to decode biology to discover and rapidly advance promising programs,” said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of Recursion. “For the first time, we’ve taught Large Language Models to use many of Recursion’s tools and data in the same way an expert scientist would, but much more simply and in a more scalable way. LOWE provides an exciting glimpse into what we believe the future of drug discovery will look like – a first step towards the development of autonomous ‘AI scientists’ for therapeutic discovery.”
Chris Gibson unveiled LOWE during Recursion’s presentation at the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. On Wednesday, January 10, Recursion and NVIDIA will co-host an invite-only event featuring an exciting lineup of speakers and additional software demonstrations of LOWE. Speakers at the event will include Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, Martin Chavez, Partner and Vice Chairman at Sixth Street Capital and Chairman of Recursion, Aviv Regev, Head and Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech, Scott Gottlieb, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Amy Abernethy, President of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer at Verily.
LOWE was developed at Valence Labs, Recursion’s AI research engine, following Recursion’s acquisition of Valence Discovery in May 2023. LOWE represents one of several initiatives Valence is pioneering to advance the future of AI-enabled scientific discovery, which includes the development of:
- Foundation models that accurately represent or simulate the biological and chemical worlds of drug discovery
- Inference engines and active learners to formulate hypotheses and learn from results
- Orchestration and reasoning systems like LOWE that can design and execute experiments for hypothesis testing
To learn more about LOWE, visit recursion.com/lowe.
