On Tuesday, Culver City-based Salt AI announced a research partnership with the Ellison Medical Institute in Sawtelle to develop a drug discovery platform.
That sentence is a breath of fresh air for one of the company’s cofounders, who once had a hard time describing Salt AI to others.
“If you say you’ve got a platform that does drug discovery and concert visuals, it’s kind of hard to wrap your head around for an investor,” Aber Whitcomb said.
But the fact of the matter is, Salt AI can do a lot – early iterations created non-playable characters for mobile games, an artificial intelligence-abled social network and, yes, concert visuals. Salt is an AI workflow platform that allows game designers, scientists, researchers – basically anyone that isn’t an engineer – to collaborate on custom AI solutions and workflows using many large language models.
“It brings AI development to people that would otherwise wouldn’t really have access to it,” Whitcomb said.
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