Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative Funds Massive AI System to Advance Medical Research

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's foundation is funding a new AI computing system for medical research with over 1,000 top-of-the-line GPUs.
The goal is to enable researchers to use generative AI to study healthy and diseased cells by creating predictive models and "virtual cells."
The system aims to make these powerful research tools more accessible and encourage collaboration.
It will be trained on existing datasets, including 50 million catalogued cells from a previous CZI project.
Once completed, it will be one of the biggest nonprofit AI research clusters, though smaller than similar commercial systems.

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