// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup
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The hyped AI-saved-my-dog story has reached its inevitable conclusion.
The hyped AI-saved-my-dog story has reached its inevitable conclusion.
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Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: he’s launched a startup.
That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer “personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs.” But his ambitions go well beyond dogs — and pets — with Gamgee’s website promising the company will harness AI and genetics to develop personalized treatments for a range of diseases and species, including humans.
At the center of Gamgee’s origin story is Rosie, Conyngham’s Staffordshire bull terrier-Shar Pei mix, who features prominently on Conyngham’s social media and the startup’s website, as well as its AI-generated anime launch video. When announcing Gamgee on X, Conyngham said “I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour. Several of her tumours shrank.”