Diego di Bernardo

Vice director, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine; professor, University of Naples Federico II

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Last updated Nov 3, 2026

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Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source AI that answers DNA questions

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Conceived Carbon-X and proposed it to Hugging Face

Hugging Face released Carbon-X on October 22, an open model that reads DNA and answers questions about it in English. At 14.8 billion parameters it fits on a single graphics card, so a lab can query patient sequences without sending them to a cloud service.

Updated Nov 3