SandboxAQ Brings Quantum Chemistry Drug Discovery Models to Claude — Bets That Access, Not Model Quality, Is the Real Bottleneck

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SandboxAQ (the Alphabet spinoff) is integrating its computational chemistry and drug discovery models directly into Claude, allowing researchers to run molecular simulations via natural language without needing a PhD in computational physics. While competitors like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs race to build better models, SandboxAQ is betting that democratizing access to existing models via LLM interfaces is the bigger lever. This is a concrete example of the 'AI as interface layer' pattern applied to hard science.