Alex Rives
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Global consortium commits $1.8B to AI-ready biological data generation
A significant international collaboration has been launched with an $1.8 billion commitment to generate and share AI-ready biological data. This initiative, involving Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Natio…
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Zuckerberg Biohub expands AI-driven cell simulation to $1.8B
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has expanded its Virtual Biology Initiative to $1.8 billion, aiming to use AI to simulate human cells. This effort involves significant contributions from the …
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Google, Meta invest $300M in Zuckerberg's AI-driven virtual cell research
Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs are collectively investing $300 million into Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. This funding is part of a large…
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AI's "Bitter Lesson" Applies to Protein Structure Prediction, Researcher Says
Alex Rives, a researcher at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, discussed Evolutionary Structure Modeling (ESM) on the Latent Space Podcast. He highlighted how the "bitter lesson" in AI, which emphasizes scaling up models and data,…
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BioHub releases ESMFold 2, challenging AlphaFold with scaled transformer models
BioHub has released ESMFold 2, an open scientific engine for protein biology, leveraging transformer models trained on vast protein sequence data. This new model demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in predicting p…
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Zuckerberg's Biohub commits $500M to AI biology, Mayo Clinic AI spots cancer early
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Biohub has launched a $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative aimed at accelerating AI's role in understanding and combating disease. The five-year project will focus on generating v…