Biohub and US agencies commit $1.8B to AI ready biology data

On October 7 Biohub announced a $1.8 billion expansion of its Virtual Biology Initiative, combining its own $500 million commitment with more than $500 million in new Department of Energy funding, over $500 million in existing NIH datasets, and $300 million from Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta. The goal is to build open, standardized biological datasets for AI models that can predict cellular responses to interventions.