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Theo Jaffee

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The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Yeah.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And China has rapidly come up to par.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And in some ways, what you're suggesting seems to me, they're kind of pushing past the frontier of the US in terms of drug development here.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And the trickle down benefits of Chinese drug development, that seems like it's going to be real to me.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Am I naive?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And this is interesting.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

I mean, not to bring everything.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

I mean, Theo, you probably have a thought here.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

What's the Dario-pilled, AGI-pilled take here, Theo?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Give it to us.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

But clinical trials, I mean, that's still, you know, you can't automate clinical trials, right?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

I mean, it just seems to me like what you might... Like the obvious bottleneck here is, I mean, imagine we live in a world where a bunch of models get... It seems to me that there's a next step, which is very close, which is just like...

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

can we get to the stage where useful targets are being developed by kind of AI models?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And I think once you get to that stage, you're probably going to have years in which the path to taking that target to market still involves going through a clinical trial process that looks pretty much like the clinical trial process today.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

It sounds like the world you're talking about, Krem, is a world in which

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

America might be developing the models that identify the targets and then they might take those to China to do the clinical trials.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

And that seems to me to be, I mean, you can imagine, you can come up with doomist scenarios where we need a strategic cancer drug reserve because China's days away from cutting us off from our GLP.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

We need like a strategic hot people drugs reserve so that we don't get fat when China cuts us off from the latest GLP ones.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

I think the optimistic take is like, it's just the same.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

It's a replay of the story of