- Co-founder, Chai Discovery14
Matthew McPartlon is one of the four co-founders of Chai Discovery, which the company's announcements describe as founded in 2024 by Joshua Meier, Jack Dent, Matthew McPartlon and Jacques Boitreaud to design new medicines with AI. McPartlon is a named author of the Chai-1 technical report (2024), whose model predicts the structures of molecular complexes, and of the Chai-2 report (2025) on zero-shot antibody design.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder
- Company
- Chai Discovery
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- AI for science
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 5
- Profile reviewed
Chai Discovery
McPartlon co-founded Chai Discovery in 2024 with Joshua Meier, Jack Dent and Jacques Boitreaud; the company builds models that reason about biological structure and function and generate new molecular designs. Chai's 2026 announcements of collaborations with Novartis and argenx name McPartlon among the founders.14
Research
McPartlon is an author of the Chai-1 technical report, posted to bioRxiv in October 2024, which the open-source chai-lab repository asks users to cite when using the model. McPartlon is also an author of the Chai-2 technical report on zero-shot antibody design, posted in July 2025.253
Work and contributions
Chai-1 Open weights
Named author of "Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life" (2024), the technical report for the model whose weights the chai-lab package uses.25
Chai-2 Proprietary product
Named author of "Zero-shot antibody design in a 24-well plate" (2025), the Chai-2 technical report.3
Timeline
Where they work
- Chai Discovery 4 people in the wiki
Related people
- Jacques BoitreaudAlso at Chai Discovery
- Jack DentAlso at Chai Discovery
- Joshua MeierAlso at Chai Discovery
- Patrick HsuAI for science
- Josef SivicAI for science
- David WaddenAI for science
- James BrazaAI for science
- Sam RodriquesAI for science
- Daphne KollerAI for science
- Eric HorvitzAI for science
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References
5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026
- Chai Discovery news — collaboration with argenx (July 2026, includes founder list)
- Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life (bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.10.10.615955; Crossref record)
- Zero-shot antibody design in a 24-well plate (bioRxiv 10.1101/2025.07.05.663018; Crossref record)
- Chai Discovery news — collaboration with Novartis (includes founder list)
- chaidiscovery/chai-lab README (citations)