AI drug dis­cov­ery start­up Benev­o­len­tAI cuts 30% of staff, clos­es US of­fice 

Benev­o­len­tAI is mak­ing its sec­ond round of lay­offs in a year, as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to re­fine the busi­ness strat­e­gy around its AI drug dis­cov­ery plat­form.

Hav­ing com­plet­ed a mar­ket as­sess­ment, Benev­o­len­tAI said it will cease work on a soft­ware-as-a-ser­vice prod­uct it called knowl­edge ex­plo­ration tools, giv­en the in­vest­ment and time need­ed to ful­ly com­mer­cial­ize the prod­uct and reap a fi­nan­cial re­turn.

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