Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

Radical Numerics said it administered a cocktail of bacteriophages designed by its Omnii-1 AI model to a patient under compassionate use, a claimed first. The phages eliminated the patient's antibiotic-resistant isolate in vitro, but the company did not disclose how the treatment went.

• Omnii-1 designed phages targeting the patient's antibiotic-resistant infection
• The cocktail cleared the bacterial isolate in vitro before being given to the patient
• No results of the human treatment were published, citing patient privacy
• Omnii-1 performed competitively at predicting phage-host interactions