Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections

Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and other backers are funding Intercept, a new $500-million nonprofit aimed at preventing respiratory infections including the common cold and flu. The organization will fund vaccines, broad-spectrum antiviral approaches, and large-scale air-cleaning technologies. Inspired by COVID-19 vaccine development, Intercept's scientific advisers believe modern tools like RNA drugs, computational protein design, and engineered virus-trapping proteins make it technically feasible to counter many viruses simultaneously. The initiative mirrors Stripe's earlier Frontier carbon removal program, targeting problems that are technically solvable but lack commercial incentives.

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