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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