Profluent on AI scaling laws for biology

Brittany Trang, Ph.D., is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

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We’re going to dive into a wonky one today. As Ms. Frizzle would say, “Seatbelts, everyone!”

Last week, AI protein design startup Profluent released a new, more powerful model called ProGen3. The headline takeaway from the company’s blog post and preprint is that Profluent says it’s discovered AI scaling laws for biology. 

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