Recursion
AI-enabled drug discovery and development company
Recursion is an AI drug discovery and development company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its site describes an AI-enabled product engine that combines automated wet and dry labs with machine learning models in a lab-in-the-loop system. Listed capabilities include disease-specific cellular engineering, high-dimensional biology, foundation models powered by supercompute, integrated design-make-test-learn cycles and AI-native clinical development. The company publishes a pipeline of investigational candidates, such as REC-4881 for familial adenomatous polyposis, in Phase 1/2 trials, and reports over $500M in partner inflows. The platform is used internally and with pharma partners.
- Filed under
- Healthcare & Wellness
- Pricing
- Paid
- Platforms
- Not listed
- Last updated
- November 10, 2026
What Recursion does
- Lab-in-the-loop engine. Combines automated wet and dry labs with machine learning models.
- Foundation models. Supercompute-powered models trained on biological data.
- Design-make-test-learn cycles. Integrated cycles for iterating on drug candidates.
- AI-native clinical development. Applies AI across trial stages for its pipeline candidates.
Who it’s for
- Pharma companies seeking AI-driven discovery partnerships
- Readers following AI-developed drug candidates
Recursion pricing
No public pricing; platform used internally and with partners
As listed on November 9, 2026. Check recursion.com for current prices.
Things to know
- Platform is used internally and with pharma partners, not sold as self-serve software
- Pipeline candidates are investigational, in clinical trials or preclinical development
Quick answers
- What is Recursion?
- Recursion is an AI drug discovery and development company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Is Recursion free?
- No. Recursion has no permanent free plan. Pricing is quoted by the vendor. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)
- Who makes Recursion?
- Recursion is made by Recursion.
- What are some alternatives to Recursion?
- Other tools filed in the same section include Ada Health, Wysa and Viz.ai.
Tags
#drug-discovery#machine-learning#automated-labs#foundation-models#clinical-development
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