Google and US Government Join Zuckerberg's $1.8B AI Biology Push

Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs are injecting $300M into Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative to map cellular responses for AI predictive models. The US Department of Energy is adding over $500M over five years for laboratory measurement and computation. The National Institutes of Health will standardize and coordinate repositories built from over $500M in earlier federal funding. Biohub expects the first dataset in a year and accurate predictive models within five years. Private backers receive an embargo period, granting them exclusive commercial access to the datasets before they are released as a public scientific resource. "Biology has been just sort of a clever discovery-based science until this point. We have always held this as a community asset, not just for one group, so that it can build upon itself over time." — Priscilla Chan