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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