Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more
and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. www.wired.com/story/alphaf...
Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more
WIRED spoke with DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project … Bluesky: @wired.com Bluesky: @wired.com : WIRED spoke with DeepMind'...
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind … LinkedIn: MIT Technology Review and Evan Feinberg LinkedIn: MIT Technology Revi...
Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins or pathogens that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats
and presenting first-of-its-kind red teaming & mitigations to strengthen biosecurity in the age of AI. LinkedIn: Satya Nadella : Published today in Science Magazine: a landmark study led by Microsoft ...
Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second
Our state-of-the-art, experimental text diffusion model Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Google Doubles Down on AI: Veo 3, Imagen 4 and Gemini Diffusion Push Creative Boundaries Matthias Bastian / The De...
A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world
Every time I read a story about mind uploading or personality backups I think “they can't yet simulate a worm with 300 neurons; a human has 86 billion” — www.wired.com/story/openwo... X: @wired : On...
London- and SF-based Latent Labs, which is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable”, emerges from stealth with $50M across seed and Series A
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Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation
Truveta aggregates 120M+ de-identified patient records daily, aiming to link medical outcomes to genetics by building the largest dataset of genetic and medical data. X: @truveta : Introducing the #Tr...
Paris-based Bioptimus, which is developing a foundational AI model for biology, raised $41M led by Cathay Innovation, bringing its total raised to $76M
After leading their seed round les than a year ago, we're doubling down as they redefine biology with AI. …
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize being “a watershed moment for AI”, biology, AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic Labs, drug programs, and more
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