SandboxAQ integrates LQMs into Claude for drug discovery

SandboxAQ has partnered with Anthropic to integrate its large quantitative models (LQMs) into the Claude AI assistant, enabling researchers to run quantum chemistry calculations and molecular simulations through a conversational interface without specialized infrastructure. Founded as an Alphabet spinout roughly five years ago, SandboxAQ is chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and has raised over $950 million. Its physics-grounded LQMs are trained on real-world lab data and scientific equations, targeting the $50+ trillion quantitative economy spanning biopharma, energy, and advanced materials. Previously, users needed their own digital infrastructure to run the models. SandboxAQ's general manager of AI simulation, Nadia Harhen, stated that this is the first time a frontier quantitative model is accessible via natural language on a frontier LLM. The company's customers include computational scientists and experimentalists at large pharmaceutical and industrial firms seeking new materials for marketable products.