# Research & News

All Blog News

## From OpenAI’s offices to a deal with Eli Lilly—how Chai Discovery became one of the flashiest names in AI drug development  
[Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/from-openais-offices-to-a-deal-with-eli-lilly-how-chai-discovery-became-one-of-the-flashiest-names-in-ai-drug-development/)

## With new AI deal, Eli Lilly and Chai Discovery kickoff a 'year of deployment' in pharma 
[Link](https://endpoints.news/eli-lilly-chai-discovery-sign-ai-software-deal/)

## Chai Discovery Announces Collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to Accelerate Biologics Discovery  
[Link](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260108131261/en/Chai-Discovery-Announces-Collaboration-with-Eli-Lilly-and-Company-to-Accelerate-Biologics-Discovery)

## Chai Discovery becomes newest AI unicorn, raising $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation  
[Link](https://endpoints.news/ai-biotech-chai-discovery-raises-130m-series-b-at-1-3b-valuation/)

## Chai Discovery Announces $130 Million Series B To Transform Molecular Discovery  
[Link](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251214931432/en/Chai-Discovery-Announces-$130-Million-Series-B-To-Transform-Molecular-Discovery)

## OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130 Million for AI-Designed Molecules  
[Link](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/openai-backed-chai-discovery-raises-130-million-for-ai-designed-molecules?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NTgwMDIyNSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NDA1MDI1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN0I4MFBLR0lGUU4wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDRUQ0NkU1RTZBNzQ0ODVDOUY5RTc0QzQyMjkyRTE0MCJ9.1U0m3NfwF0gsl0rRZj0D-aTKry9OMxojHwBVSVNtER0&leadSource=uverify%20wall)

## Series B  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/series-b)

## Drug-like antibody design against challenging targets with atomic precision  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/chai-2-mab)

## The Endpoints 11: OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery’s brainiac quartet aims to design drugs on the computer  
[Link](https://endpoints.news/endpoints-11-winner-2025-chai-discovery-aims-to-design-drugs-on-the-computer/)

## OpenAI-backed Chai raises $70mn for AI-driven drug discovery  
[Link](https://www.ft.com/content/eeaff7a2-acc8-4a79-a564-80debdcecc1a)

## OpenAI-backed biotech Chai Discovery raises $70M Series A  
[Link](https://endpoints.news/openai-backed-biotech-chai-discovery-raises-70m-series-a/)

## Chai Discovery Announces $70 million Series A To Transform Molecular Design  
[Link](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250806670137/en/Chai-Discovery-Announces-$70-million-Series-A-To-Transform-Molecular-Design)

## Series A  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/series-a-announcement)

## OpenAI-backed startup releases new AI models, claiming top performance in making antibodies  
[Link](https://endpoints.news/openai-backed-biotech-debuts-antibody-making-ai-models/)

## Chai Discovery Unveils Chai-2 Breakthrough, Achieving Fully De Novo Antibody Design With AI  
[Link](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250630307418/en/Chai-Discovery-Unveils-Chai-2-Breakthrough-Achieving-Fully-De-Novo-Antibody-Design-With-AI)

## Introducing Chai-2: Zero-shot antibody design in a 24-well plate  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/introducing-chai-2)

## New OpenBind consortium to make the UK a leader in AI-driven drug discovery  
[Link](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-become-world-leader-in-drug-discovery-as-technology-secretary-heads-for-london-tech-week)

## Drug discovery platform raises $30M as AI health-tech companies continue to attract investors  
[Link](https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/chai-discovery-raises-seed-funding)

## OpenAI-backed start-up unveils Chai-1 AI model for drug discovery  
[Link](https://firstwordpharma.com/story/5894899)

## OpenAI, Thrive Capital Back Six-Month-Old AI Drug Discovery Startup  
[Link](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/openai-thrive-capital-back-six-month-old-ai-drug-discovery-startup?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NTk5MTk2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NTk2NzY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSjhQMUFUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMDZDOTEwOTJCRkY0M0UxQURGMUNCRDA5RjlFQTU0QSJ9.K-9oeKMwZU571HSyhU_xXfwmgl0QJZ4MRBir9vlY-oM)

## Introducing Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/introducing-chai-1)

## Seed  
[Link](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/seed-announcement)