Company and Stock Identity
How GSK Connects to the Public Market
- Company structure
- Public company
- Market access
- Direct listing: NYSE: GSK. The ordinary shares also trade in London, and the New York listing is an ADR programme.
- Stock name
- GSK plc
- Ticker and exchange
- NYSE: GSK
- Research focus
- GSK buys AI tools, so read its announcements for the stage the work reached. Access to a model is not the same as a signed licence, and a licence is not the same as a medicine in a trial. Its own figures are worth separating too: 32.7 billion pounds of 2025 turnover and 66,800 staff come from its about page, while any claim about what an AI partner delivered usually comes from the partner's release, not from GSK's accounts.
GSK is publicly held and has no controlling owner. Its investor pages give the legal issuer as GSK plc, registered in England and Wales number 3888792, and its ADR programme page says the receipts trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GSK, with one ADR representing two ordinary shares and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. as depositary. Its about page gives the head office as 79 New Oxford Street, London. Verified on the company's own investor and about pages on October 24, 2026.
Dated Market Snapshot
Oct 26, 2026
- Last price
- $51.10
- Change
- +0.69%
- Previous close
- $50.75
- 52-week high / low
- $61.695/$42.845
- Market cap
- 103,360,257,335
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First-Hand Company News
Latest Developments
GSK takes Chai Discovery's designs into its own labs first, then signs a collaboration
Chai Discovery announced on 9 October 2026 that GSK will get access to its platform, including its protein folding and design models, to support discovery work across GSK's pipeline. The announcement says the deal followed a wet-lab evaluation in which Chai's models generated designs against GSK targets zero-shot, without training on those targets, and that GSK then tested the designs itself. Chai's wording is that GSK conducted internal wet-lab testing of the designs, finding binders to all tested targets. Christopher Austin, GSK's senior vice president of R&D technologies, is quoted saying GSK evaluated the models across a panel of diverse targets and saw designs with strong binding affinities. Joshua Meier, Chai's co-founder and chief executive, is quoted saying the evaluation let both teams assess the models against a range of therapeutic targets in the lab. No payments, milestones or number of programs were disclosed.
Why it matters: A binder is a long way from a medicine. It means a designed molecule stuck to the thing it was aimed at, which is the first hurdle of many, and nothing here says any of it will help a patient. What makes this one worth noting is who ran the test. The lab work was done inside GSK on GSK's own targets, so the result is not the AI company grading its own homework. Zero-shot matters for the same reason: the models had not been tuned on those particular targets, which is closer to how a new program actually starts. The open question is money. No payments or program counts were disclosed, so this could be a broad licence or a small pilot, and the announcement does not say which.
Novartis gets access to Chai Discovery's antibody design models
Chai Discovery announced on 13 July 2026 that Novartis will get access to its AI models, including Chai-3, to support therapeutic antibody discovery across multiple targets. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the announcement gives no number of programs or milestones. Fiona Marshall, Novartis's president of biomedical research, is quoted saying AI is already reshaping how the company discovers medicines and that applying advanced models to problems like antibody design lets it explore a broader range. Joshua Meier, Chai's co-founder and chief executive, is quoted calling it a significant step forward. The announcement also names Pfizer and Eli Lilly as earlier users of Chai's models.
Why it matters: This is an access agreement, which is the lightest kind of deal in this field. A large drug company can hand a model to a research group, try it on a few targets and walk away without ever announcing that it stopped. Nothing here is a result, and nothing here involves a patient. What it does tell a biologics team is that the design models cleared whatever internal review Novartis runs before outside software touches real programs, and that Chai now has three of the largest drug companies on that list. Treat the names as a signal about the software being taken seriously, not as evidence that it works.
Careers and Qualifications
What to Know Before Applying
Work areas: GSK's careers pages group its openings into research and development, technology, engineering, global supply chain, business operations, and sales and marketing, plus graduate programmes and apprenticeships. The research and development side names medicine development and supply, chemical manufacturing and controls, and genomic sciences.
Qualification signal: For the AI-adjacent roles here, drug discovery context counts more than a general data science background. Someone who has worked beside a wet lab and understands why a design has to be made and tested will be more useful than someone who has only trained models on public data.
Check current roles at GSK. A careers page is the source of record for openings. This profile does not claim a role is open unless the company lists it now.
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Buyer Snapshot
- Best-fit buyer
- Research and development leaders, clinical development teams, business development staff, and investors tracking where AI partnerships lead
- Primary use case
- Sponsor, license, or partner on AI research, molecule design, and trial measurement in drug development
- Typical deployment
- Drug developer. AI arrives through a research collaboration, a licence, or a tool used inside a clinical trial.
Evidence questions
- What stage did the agreement reach, and were any payments or milestones disclosed?
- Which programs or molecules does the AI work actually touch?
- Has anything from the collaboration reached a clinical endpoint rather than a press release?
Regulatory and workflow questions
- If AI produced a measurement used in a trial, has a regulator accepted that measurement?
- Which regulatory submissions, if any, depend on the AI work?
- Who is responsible for the quality of an AI-generated result inside a trial record?
Data and contract questions
- Whose data trained the model, and what did the drug company contribute?
- Who owns a molecule or design the collaboration produces?
- What happens to the shared data if the collaboration ends?
Evidence and Regulation
FDA Clearances on Record
No clearance is linked in this directory. That is not automatically a mark against the company. Some products support the people doing the work instead of reading a patient image or signal themselves.