Zuckerberg's CZI to Develop Free AI Models for Disease Research

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans AI system for life sciences research
Will use system to run openly available AI models on human cells and diseases
Comes as Meta rolls out large language models for businesses
Models trained on CZ Cell x Gene and other public datasets
Part of effort to cure, prevent or manage disease by end of century
Zuckerberg said crowdsourcing better than charging for model access

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Posted 9/19/2023, 5:04:00 PM