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Peter Ottsjö

Peter Ottsjö is a tech journalist and author of the popular science book Evigt Ung (Forever Young), CEO of LEVITY Media Group and co-host of the LEVITY Podcast, Longevity Biotech Fellowship fellow and Vitalist.

Claude Mythos “routinely outperforms the best scientists out there”

Apr 12, 2026

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15 min read

Claude Mythos “routinely outperforms the best scientists out there”

Plus: an AI that reads heart fat predicts failure five years out, Medra opens America's largest autonomous lab, and Genentech tests AI agents on 100 biology tasks.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
8 things I learned when the biggest strategy report of 2026 turned to AI x bio

Apr 10, 2026

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13 min read

8 things I learned when the biggest strategy report of 2026 turned to AI x bio

Amy Webb's Convergence Outlook devotes two of ten convergences to AI × bio. I read the 40+ pages so you don't have to.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
OpenAI and Arc launch full-scale attack on Alzheimer's

Apr 9, 2026

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12 min read

OpenAI and Arc launch full-scale attack on Alzheimer's

Plus: An AI designed enzymes for chemistry nature never invented, and a new study shows AlphaFold reversed a long-running decline in scientific novelty.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Anthropic spent $400M for a team with no product

Apr 5, 2026

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13 min read

Anthropic spent $400M for a team with no product

Plus: A massive AI model predicts aging and a paper says AI can replace biological clocks.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Comparing AI x bio with quacks is not skepticism - it's just lazy

Apr 2, 2026

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9 min read

Comparing AI x bio with quacks is not skepticism - it's just lazy

A Johns Hopkins professor says AI in biology is starting to look like pseudoscience. Here's what covering 60+ stories in the past six weeks have taught us.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
The AI saw what the doctors missed

Apr 2, 2026

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14 min read

The AI saw what the doctors missed

Plus: three ex-Ginkgo leaders argue biology needs its Bauhaus moment, and the LabOS team builds a simulation universe for AI agents.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Here's Lilly's $2.75 billion bet on AI-designed drugs

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

Here's Lilly's $2.75 billion bet on AI-designed drugs

Plus: Meta open-sources a digital model of the brain, an AlphaFold veteran's agent designs drugs from a text prompt, and Anthropic may be building a biology mode.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Here's OpenAI's big bet on biology

Mar 25, 2026

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13 min read

Here's OpenAI's big bet on biology

Plus: A $787 million AI biologics company emerges, and a multi-agent AI for dementia validated across 3 million patients.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
This AI runs inside a chemical reaction (well, sort of)

Mar 22, 2026

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13 min read

This AI runs inside a chemical reaction (well, sort of)

Plus: The field's own reality check, and experts preferred BioReason-Pro's reasoning over curated databases.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
A virtual cell model just predicted biology it was never trained on

Mar 18, 2026

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16 min read

A virtual cell model just predicted biology it was never trained on

Plus: NVIDIA breaks the size ceiling on protein folding, a million AI-designed proteins get tested in actual wet labs, and OpenClaw gets a science layer.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
He used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a cancer vaccine for his dog

Mar 15, 2026

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12 min read

He used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a cancer vaccine for his dog

Plus: Nature Biotechnology maps the agentic AI boom, a YC startup's DNA sequences get slammed by a Stanford scientist, and MedOS heads to GTC.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
What if the dominant AI architecture is wrong for biology?

Mar 11, 2026

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11 min read

What if the dominant AI architecture is wrong for biology?

Plus: A complete cell cycle, simulated in six days on a supercomputer.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Yes, there's now a synthetic protein that lets you read a cell's past

Mar 8, 2026

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11 min read

Yes, there's now a synthetic protein that lets you read a cell's past

Plus: AI enters the operating room with FDA approval, and Insilico ships a drug discovery model that runs behind your firewall.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Agents self-improve as Stanford ships “vibe analysis” for biology

Mar 5, 2026

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13 min read

Agents self-improve as Stanford ships “vibe analysis” for biology

Plus: AI smart glasses are training junior scientists to expert level in a week

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
What happens when 37,000 AI agents run a biotech?

Mar 1, 2026

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12 min read

What happens when 37,000 AI agents run a biotech?

Plus: The largest biotech IPO since 2024 is built on generative protein design.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Immunology just got its own foundation model

Feb 25, 2026

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10 min read

Immunology just got its own foundation model

Plus: Anthropic's cheap model catches up on biology and Lilly publishes its autonomous drug discovery framework.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Heart AI works on patients it's never seen

Feb 15, 2026

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7 min read

Heart AI works on patients it's never seen

Bo Wang's lab built a cardiac world model that generalizes to new patients with almost no labeled data.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
The race to replace AlphaFold just got real

Feb 12, 2026

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9 min read

The race to replace AlphaFold just got real

Isomorphic and Terray both outperform the leading open-source model - using opposite approaches. Plus: GPT-5 runs 36,000 lab experiments.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö

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