Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

Jul 21, 2026 · 1h 29m

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✨ AI Summary

Xaira's X-Cell model uses causal data for drug discovery.
Information limits model performance, not just parameters or compute.
More information-rich data is needed for accurate gene expression prediction.

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Ph.D. Beijing Normal University 2016 · 1 podcast appearance

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Ci Chu

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