The initiative will make the tool publicly available so researchers can collaboratively use it for new discoveries. This could level the playing field for researchers who lack equal access to computing power for biotechnology research. The AI techniques used in this project are similar to those used in Meta's AI tool, ESMFold, and the large language models used in AlphaFold and ChatGPT.
Key takeaways:
- Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to develop a computing system that can help eradicate human disease by 2100. The system will use AI to catalog cells and predict their behavior when diseased.
- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to have their product running by 2024. The system will be made of 1,000 graphics processing units to visually analyze both healthy and diseased cells from databases.
- The initiative aims to make the tool available to the public so that researchers can use it collaboratively to make new discoveries, potentially leveling the playing field for researchers who lack equal access to computing power.
- The AI techniques used in this project are similar to those used in a previous tool developed by Meta, called ESMFold, which efficiently predicts the shape of proteins using AI. The same type of program, a large language model, will be used in the new proposal.