Billionaire Uses AI to Predict Evolutionary Changes
In brief
- Ben Lamm, co-founder of Colossal, is leveraging AI to predict evolutionary changes in entire biological systems through his new startup, Astromech.
- Backed by a $20 million investment led by Arch Ventures, the company aims to use data from Colossal's de-extinction research to model gene evolution.
- This could help improve crop breeding, drug discovery, and disease prediction.
- The technology focuses on longevity genes and plans to expand with new hires.
- Astromech's unique dataset offers insights into genetic changes over time, giving it an edge in this field.
Terms in this brief
- de-extinction
- The process of bringing back species that have gone extinct, often through genetic engineering and cloning. This research can help us understand how genes evolve over time and could be used to model gene evolution for various applications like crop breeding and drug discovery.
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