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Alex Rives

@alexrives
AI for scientific discovery. Head of Science, Biohub. Founder and scientific director of the ESM project.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2009
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    May 27
    Today we're announcing ESMFold2, an open scientific engine to power prediction, design, and discovery across protein biology. The new model delivers state of the art performance on protein interactions, especially antibodies, a critical modality for therapeutics. We have
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    Oct 7
    A universal predictive model of the cell would dramatically accelerate science, allowing biologists to perform experiments digitally. Today we’re announcing a major partnership with the DOE and NIH. The goal of this partnership is to generate the data that will be needed to build
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    Jun 11
    Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun. Phase contrast plays an important role in
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    May 28
    Great talking with RJ and Brandon on the Latent Space AI for Science podcast, about protein language models, scaling in biology, and the new ESMFold2.
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    May 27
    🆕Biohub’s Protein World Model: ESMC-6B, ESMFold2, 6.8B proteins, 1.1B structures, antibody design, SAEs, & the bitter lesson for biology latent.space/p/esmfold2 @biohub Head of Science @alexrives explains why biology may scale like language modeling, how metagenomics unlocked
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    Apr 29
    Scaling laws are powering AI. It’s time to scale biology. Today we’re launching the Virtual Biology Initiative to generate the data to unlock scaling laws in biology and build accurate predictive models of the cell. Digital representations of proteins are already expanding our
    Biohub launches the Virtual Biology Initiative
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