Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives – No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives
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Bullish
$AIMODELS— AI models are enabling a new era of science where information theory at scale allows systems to learn world models and biology from data, with emergent properties solving historically hard problems like drug toxicity prediction.
$BIOTECH— Protein language models trained on billions of sequences are learning emergent representations of biology that enable therapeutic-level drug design (nanomolar binders) with minimal experimental validation, dramatically lowering barriers to drug development.
$PHARMA— Rare disease economics are improving as patient self-organization and lower drug development costs enable viable business models for the long tail of diseases, with patient groups organizing registries, biobanks, and clinical trials at unprecedented speed.