NVIDIA and David Baker's lab debut open protein-design model RFD4-Proteina
AllThingsApx · x · 2026-10-21
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA and the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (David Baker's lab) released RFD4-Proteina, an open BioNeMo model combining programmable protein design with search.
Key points:
- Available day one via partners including Amazon Bio Discovery, Benchling, Databricks, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, OpenAI and Anthropic's Claude Science
- Siemens Healthineers is working with NVIDIA on next-gen adaptive radiotherapy using agentic co-planning, patient-specific simulation and robotic control
- Automata, Benchling, Danaher and others are building scientific agents on BioNeMo linking drug design, autonomous labs and biological discovery
- NVIDIA did not disclose contract values or revenue commitments
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