Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses

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dinkelberg•about 2 hours ago

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

Commentary: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512

Published 6 August 2026 in Science

mbeavitt•about 3 hours ago

Didn’t see anything about how they are treating the model confidentiality - will this be released to select orgs or made open? I guess this could one of the few things I would not want to be open sourced.

zardo•about 2 hours ago

It only mentions open models.

https://github.com/arcinstitute/evo2

infotainment•40 minutes ago

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."