Elon Musk reposted – Man saves dog from cancer thanks to Grok…. Clip plus FULL vid below it
Interesting that it was @grok that did the final science heavy lifting in the man cures dog’s cancer with AI story. Grok corrected errors in the vaccine construct missed by Gemini Full pod down below the clip
Full pod down in the replies pic.twitter.com/V5WjaQ9m7q
— Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) March 18, 2026
Paul Conyngham is not a biologist. He’s an AI researcher in Australia whose dog, Rosie, was misdiagnosed with cancer for nearly a year — and by the time the tumor was correctly identified, it had grown too large to remove surgically. Facing a death sentence for his dog, Conyngham did what he knew how to do: he opened ChatGPT and started asking questions. What followed was a months-long crash course in oncology, immunotherapy, and mRNA vaccine design, conducted almost entirely through AI tools, that ended with Conyngham and a team of Australian scientists delivering what he believes was the world’s first computationally designed mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog. The story went viral last week, drawing both massive public affection and sharp skepticism from researchers who question how much credit the AI tools actually deserve. Conyngham addresses the critics head-on, explains the multimodal treatment protocol he designed for Rosie — mRNA vaccine, PD-1 inhibitor, tyrosine kinase inhibitor — and makes the case that what happened here is less about one dog and more about a new era in medicine that regulators aren’t remotely ready for. Rosie, for her part, appears to be doing well. She was in the room for this conversation. Our host Ashlee Vance is a journalist, author, and filmmaker best known for his New York Times bestselling books, including the biography of Elon Musk and When The Heavens Went on Sale. He spent years at Bloomberg Businessweek covering Silicon Valley, space, and the people building the future, where he also created and hosted the Emmy-nominated series Hello World. His documentary work includes Wild Wild Space for HBO and Don’t Die for Netflix. Now he runs Core Memory, a media company telling stories about scientists, inventors, and startups changing the world—from biotech labs to factory floors to the edge of space.
Interesting that it was @grok that did
