Zuckerberg's Biohub Expands Virtual Biology Push to $1.8B With NIH, DeepMind, and Meta

Zuckerberg and Chan's Biohub is expanding its $500M Virtual Biology Initiative into a $1.8B effort with NIH, the Energy Department, Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs to train AI that simulates cells. The Energy Department commits $500M+ over five years. Science head Alex Rives says accurate models will need data on trillions of cells, versus hundreds of millions today.

• Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Biohub expands its $500M Virtual Biology Initiative into a $1.8B effort with the U.S. government, DeepMind, and Meta to train AI that simulates cells.
• The NIH shares datasets backed by $500M+ in past federal spending, while the Energy Dept. commits $500M+ over five years to the cell simulation push.
• Biohub science head Alex Rives says accurate models will need data on trillions of cells, versus the hundreds of millions in today's biggest datasets.