BOTANIC-1 model family launches to design tomorrow's food from DNA up, fully open on Hugging Face
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-09-11
A new model family called BOTANIC-1 has been released, aimed at "designing the food of tomorrow from the DNA up." According to the announcement, it beats all previous models on this task.
The models are fully open on Hugging Face, and the author argues this line of work is more practically useful than the Millennium Problems. Details are expanded in a follow-up thread.
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