Cracking Biology’s Code with Evo 2, an AI Trained on 100K Species
A new foundation model designed to unlock deeper insights into biological code has been released today. Developed through a collaboration led by Arc Institute and Nvidia, Evo 2 is trained on the DNA of...
View ArticleGraphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of the proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years,...
View ArticleAWS and MSK Team Up to Advance Precision Medicine with HPC and AI
Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a collaboration with global cancer center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Driven by artificial intelligence, high performance...
View ArticleCedars-Sinai Researchers Use AI to Detect Liver Disease in Heart Scans
Liver disease affects 4.5 million people in the U.S. according to CDC estimates, and it can often be asymptomatic. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai are working to make diagnosis of liver disease easier and...
View ArticleNvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever
At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell...
View ArticleMount Sinai’s New AI Model Analyzes Entire Nights of Sleep Using 1M+ Hours of...
Sleep scientists have long sought to decode the mystery of our nightly shuteye, sifting through brain waves, heartbeats, and breathing patterns to understand the various stages we drift through. Now,...
View ArticleThe Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The...
View ArticleOumi Takes Aim at LLM Hallucinations, One Sentence at a Time
Language models still struggle with the truth, and for industries with regulatory or safety responsibilities, that can be a serious liability. That is why open source AI lab Oumi released HallOumi, a...
View ArticleStanford’s AI Index Highlights Growing Divide Between Open and Proprietary...
In 2024, nearly 90% of the world’s most notable AI models came out of industry. Just a year prior, that figure was 60%. As the scale, cost, and compute required to build frontier AI systems continue...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Targets AI Sovereignty With New Action Plan
The European Commission has just released its AI Continent Action Plan, a sweeping strategy aimed at establishing Europe as a global leader in artificial intelligence. Building on recent regulatory,...
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