GraphML News (Aug 9th) - AITHYRA Call for PhD students, Chai Discovery Round, Graph Learning Meets Theoretical CS

While everyone is busy with GPT-5, Opus 4.1, and GPT-OSS, let’s sneak in some graph news!

🎓 A few days ago you could’ve seen an AITHYRA call for postdocs - but fear not if you are still deciding about starting your scientific career, AITHYRA has a call for PhD students too! The plan includes 15-20 fully funded scholarships on the intersection of AI/ML, Molecular Technologies and Systems Medicine (degree either from Medical University or TU of Vienna). Application deadline is September 10, 2025. Glad to see Vienna becoming a new scientific hub in Europe.

💸 Chai Discovery raised $70M Series A from Menlo Ventures & Anthology Fund (Anthropic), Thrive Capital, OpenAI + others ($30M seed). The startup is known for Chai-2 generative model and aims at antibody design. Congrats to Chai!

📚 The Simons Foundation organizes the Graph Learning Meets Theoretical CS workshop (to be held physically at UC Berkeley) inviting renowned professors from both areas (and me, a simple man from industry). The program is packed with a bunch of cool topics starting from practicals things like graph foundation models up to graphons, invariances, combinatorial optimization, and many more. The talks will be streamed on YouTube, and participation is actually free, so come by if you’re at the UC Berkeley campus.