Mark Zuckerberg

“with a $500M commitment to the Virtual Biology Initiative. Building hierarchical world models of biology combining frontier AI with frontier wet-lab science.”

“You can't just go straight to cells in a way without understanding the protein modeling. And then if you're trying to understand something like the way the immune system works or a bunch of cells interact together, then it's tough to do that without first understanding cells... I do think that a big part of the strategy is this view that you need to build it up hierarchically.”

“We funded the human cell atlas, which is now one of the largest databases of single cell transcriptomes.”

“Then a community came around Cell by Gene and started contributing more and more data that we had nothing to do with sort of creating or funding or making happen in the world. And now Cell by Gene is a corpus of knowledge that a lot of the transcriptomic-based models are based off of.”

“Are you looking for a job? — Mark Zuckerberg”