DOE and NIH partner with Google DeepMind, Meta on Virtual Biology Initiative to model the cell
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-10-08
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, enabling biologists to run experiments digitally.
- Founding partners: Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind, and Meta
- Other participants include the Allen Institute, Broad Institute, and Gladstone
- The long-term vision is a universal predictive model of the cell and eventually digital twins of biology to accelerate disease and aging research
Related event: Meta and Google DeepMind Join DOE and NIH to Model Cells Virtually(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Delegating Skills to AI Is Fine — the Real Question Is Which Skills Come Next — DevToD4 · 2026-10-08
- Debate Erupts Over 'Mathematicians Did Not Ask for This' in Terence Tao Blog Post — littmath · 2026-10-08
- "A Lee Sedol moment for an entire profession": viral take says no job is safe from AI math proofs — UltraRareAF · 2026-10-08
- Meta may own consumer AI agents as Google's Gemini agent leans B2B and paid tiers — RihardJarc · 2026-10-08
- Three papers claiming Hodge conjecture progress withdrawn over a sign error — ziv_ravid · 2026-10-08
- After OpenAI's 722 math papers, why AI will crack verifiable fields first but not bug-free code — ziv_ravid · 2026-10-08