How Phagos Uses Generative AI to Develop Antibiotic Alternatives in 2 Months Instead of 10 Years

Antibiotic resistance causes at least one million deaths annually. Bacteria develop immunity faster than new antibiotics can be created (10+ years and billions of dollars per drug). Traditional phage therapy matching is manual and impractical due to trillions of possible phage-bacteria combinations.

Phagos uses Amazon SageMaker AI to train generative AI models on genomic datasets that predict phage-bacteria interactions. Their Alphagos platform automates what was previously trial-and-error, enabling precision medicine at scale.

Treatment development dropped from 10+ years to 2 months. Wet lab testing requirements reduced 50%. Phage screening is 99.5% faster (10 minutes vs 29 hours per bacteria). Over 500,000 animals have been treated in France deployments.