Emilia Javorsky
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1,653 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Mar
Emilia Javorsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The pitch was compelling.
AI would identify novel drug targets, design optimal molecules, and dramatically accelerate the path to clinical success.
A decade later, the results tell a more sobering story.
Following significant challenges, Accenture was folded into Recursion in 2024 with the hope of creating an AI drug discovery superpower, representing an implicit admission that neither company had achieved the promised breakthroughs independently.
By June 2025, Recursion had laid off 20% of its workforce.
In January 2026,
Recursion was trading around $4.20, far below its mid-2021 high of $40.
Benevolent AI was delisted from Euronext Amsterdam in March 2025, merging with Osaka Holdings.
Other long-running AI drug discovery companies, including Atomwise and Relay, have experienced significant challenges.
A retrospective analysis revealed that AI-discovered molecules show substantially higher success rates in Phase I clinical trials compared to historical norms.
This validates AI's superior ability to find novel molecules with drug-like properties.
This is genuine progress and should not be dismissed.
But this advantage disappears by phase two trials, when drugs are tested for efficacy to see if they actually treat disease.
The bottleneck is not finding promising molecules.
It's predicting which will actually work in humans.
as one venture capitalist estimated in 2023.
If you take the hype and PR at face value over the last 10 years, you would think it, AI drug discovery, goes from 5% to 90%.
But if you know how these models work, it goes from 5% to maybe 6% or 7%.
One recent ray of hope came from Insilico Medicine's success in advancing an AI-discovered candidate.
for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, with few good treatment options.
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