AI start­up En­tos looks to one-up the rest of the field by fold­ing quan­tum me­chan­ics in­to its dis­cov­ery plat­form

Imag­ine pre­dict­ing mol­e­c­u­lar prop­er­ties 1,000 times faster with 100 times less train­ing da­ta. That’s the fu­ture that co-founders Tom Miller and Fred Man­by en­vi­sion at En­tos. On Wednes­day, the team un­veiled a $53 mil­lion Se­ries A round and a new 16,000 square-foot San Diego head­quar­ters to get start­ed.

En­tos came to­geth­er last April with tech de­rived from Miller and Man­by’s labs at Cal­tech and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol, re­spec­tive­ly. The two aca­d­e­mics had been op­er­at­ing in the same cir­cles for a while be­fore they of­fi­cial­ly met at a con­fer­ence in East Lans­ing, MI.

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