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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