Biohub leads $1.8bn plan to build AI model predicting cell behaviour
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Biohub, a nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8bn plan to use AI models to predict cell behaviour and speed up drug development. The news was reported by The Decoder on 8 October 2026 and is the latest development known so far. The report did not disclose the specific participants, funding structure, timeline or technical details of the plan, nor whether there had been any prior coverage.
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- The DecoderZuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior
Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first dataset should be ready in about a year.
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