Latent Labs

Latent Labs is a protein-design AI company founded by Simon Kohl, a former protein-design lead on DeepMind's AlphaFold team. Its focus is generative de-novo protein design — creating new proteins with desired functions from scratch — delivered through accessible tools, including LatentX, a free web application that lets researchers design proteins in the browser, and a 2026 agentic design assistant. That accessibility-first posture (a usable web tool rather than a closed pipeline) makes it a natural fit for a learning catalog and a peer to Cradle and Chai in the browser-based protein-design category. The company has partnered on NVIDIA's latest GPU infrastructure. The usual caveat applies: AI-designed proteins are hypotheses that must be expressed and tested in the lab, but the design tools sharply widen what a small team can attempt.