Biohub's $1.8B virtual cell bet: the bottleneck is data, not AI
HarperSCarroll · x · 2026-11-03
Alex Rives, Head of Science at Zuckerberg-backed Biohub, says the biggest holdup in curing disease with AI is likely data, not models — we've barely measured how cells behave. Biohub is spending $1.8 billion to generate the data needed for a "virtual cell"; the podcast covers how language-model approaches map onto biology.
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