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1.8 billion pledged for AI biology model data
A consortium including Biohub, the Department of Energy, the NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and Meta has committed $1.8 billion towards the Virtual Biology Initiative. This funding will enhance data, compute power, and measurement technology to establish an open, AI-ready biological dataset. The goal is to train predictive cell models, enabling the simulation of cellular responses to various interventions within a virtual cell environment.
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