First ever: AI-designed bacteriophages administered to a patient with drug-resistant infection
exnx · x · 2026-10-21
EvolutionaryScale introduces Omnii-1, its most powerful genome language model and what it calls a major step toward general biological intelligence. The model unifies 28 biological modalities — DNA, RNA, proteins, epigenomics, and more — trained on trillions of tokens of biological data.
The headline claim: Omnii-1 designed the first AI-generated bacteriophages to be administered to a human patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection under compassionate use — a world first.
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