$1.8B CZ Biohub–DeepMind–Meta effort aims to build AI models of living cells
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-07
CZ Biohub is partnering with Google DeepMind, Meta and the U.S. government on a $1.8B effort to build AI models of living cells.
- The goal is a "universal virtual cell" that lets scientists test experiments digitally before choosing the most promising ones
- Biohub head of science Alex Rives: "We're at the beginning of a new scientific paradigm with AI"
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