Stanford and Arc Institute Used AI to Design 16 Novel Virus Genomes
aftahi_ai · x · 2026-08-08
Researchers from Stanford and Arc Institute utilized an AI language model to design 16 complete viral genomes not found in nature. This marks the first instance of a language model generating complete, functional genomes, with the findings published in the journal Science.
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