Meta, DeepMind and Isomorphic join DOE/NIH Virtual Biology Initiative to model the cell
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-08
Meta's Alex Rives announced a major partnership with the DOE and NIH to generate the data needed to build an accurate AI model of the cell — a universal predictive model that would let biologists run experiments digitally.
- Founding partners: Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind, and Meta
- Other participants include the Allen Institute, Broad Institute, and Gladstone Institutes
- The Virtual Biology Initiative marks a large-scale coordinated effort to map cellular biology and build digital models of life
As one commenter put it: large, clean, diverse datasets remain the real drivers of progress.
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