Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is reportedly launching an AI drug discovery startup seeking $200M at a $2B valuation.

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<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-researcher-miles-wang-in-talks-to-launch-ai-drug-discovery-startup-valued-at-2b/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260714/i58.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260714/p58#a260714p58" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Marina Temkin / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/openai-researcher-miles-wang-in-talks-to-launch-ai-drug-discovery-startup-valued-at-2b/">Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker &hellip; </p>

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