Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior
Zuckerberg's Biohub is leading a $1.8 billion effort to build AI models that predict cell behavior.
Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion effort to build AI models that predict cell behavior and could speed drug development. Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs are contributing $300 million combined, while the US Department of Energy is investing over $500 million in lab measurements and compute over five years. The NIH is coordinating datasets backed by more than $500 million in prior federal funding, which Biohub will standardize for training. Commercial funders get one year of exclusive access, and a first dataset is expected in about a year.
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