The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has unveiled an ambitious plan that intends to "help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century." Last Monday, founders Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced the funding and construction of one of the world's biggest computing systems for nonprofit life science research.
As per an official statement, "The high-performance computing cluster, which is planned to comprise 1,000+ GPUs, will enable AI and large language models for biomedicine at scale."
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), founded in 2015 with the goal of addressing social issues including disease and illiteracy, intends to incorporate AI into biology and speed up the pace of managing conditions.
“AI models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection, what happens at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease, or how a patient's body will respond to a new medication. We hope that this collaborative effort will generate new insights about the fundamental characteristics of our cells," CZI Co-founder and Co-CEO Priscilla Chan said.
Mark Zuckerberg, CZI Co-founder and Co-CEO, said in the official statement, “Al is creating new opportunities in biomedicine and building a high-performance computing cluster dedicated to life science research will accelerate progress on important scientific questions about how our cells work. Developing digital models capable of predicting all cell types and cell states from the genome will help researchers better understand our cells and how they behave in health and disease".
Predictive models will be trained using massive imaging datasets from the Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging (CZ Imaging Institute), the CZ CELLXxGENE software tool, the OpenCell protein location and interaction atlas, and the Tabula Sapiens cell atlas.
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