MSA Pairformer beats ESMC 6B while academia still struggles to raise $100K

KevinKaichuang · x · 2026-07-22

A quote tweet contrasts the funding realities of academia and industry while pointing to a new paper on MSA Pairformer.

• The paper says MSA Pairformer predicts contacts more accurately than ESMC 6B.
• Its key idea is not simply scaling model size or training data.
• Instead, it uses the growing amount of sequence data at inference time.
• The tweet frames this against a stark funding gap: academia still struggles to raise $100K, while industry can raise $142M in seed funding.

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