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Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

44 pointsby gmayslast Thursday at 3:12 AM2 commentsview on HN

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Frannkytoday at 6:41 AM

It's interesting that there are almost no comments on this. This feels like some of the most exciting and impactful fields of the next years. I worked with a cracked researcher that was generating molecules a couple of years ago. She spent most of her time fighting cuda bugs and trying installing packages. I wonder if the ecosystem matured right now. There are people studying cells to see what enters and what exits and engineer how to stop, for example, resources feeding a bad cell. Possibilities feel endless. I am a little worried about side effects, since bio is way more chaotic than silicon, but hopefully AI will help with that level of chaos too.

swyxtoday at 6:26 AM

we interviewed Alex Rives, cofounder of EvoScale and Head of Science at BioHub - here https://www.latent.space/p/esmfold2

also 3 paper coauthors walked thru it with us: https://youtu.be/4g1bURdKN0Q

all this is part of the new AI for Science effort we are spinning up at Latent Space - all guidance and support would be greatly appreciated as this is a much harder domain to cover than software