Biohub announced on October 7, 2026, an expansion of the Virtual Biology Initiative to a coordinated $1.8 billion commitment. DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta are jointly investing $300 million. The DOE is putting in more than $500 million over five years. The NIH is coordinating datasets tied to more than $500 million in earlier federal funding. Biohub had already committed $500 million in April.
Alex Rives told Reuters a first dataset could be ready in about a year and that models he considers accurate sit in a five-year window: a project expectation, not a delivered result. Commercial funders would get an embargo before public release; government-funded work, he said, would not.
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