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

Led the Carbon-X project

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

Notable Quotes

"We've unlocked a new capability in language models, which is fundamentally about being able to chat with DNA."

from Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source AI that answers DNA questions · Updated Nov 3

"The holy grail is, in general, this concept of personalised medicine."

from Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source AI that answers DNA questions · Updated Nov 3