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Mark Zuckerberg’s Biohub gets millions from Google, US govt to build virtual cells

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s nonprofit Biohub has secured fresh funding from Google DeepMind, Meta, Isomorphic Labs and the US government to build a “virtual cell”, an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to disease and treatment. Total investment in the Virtual Biology Initiative now stands at $1.8 billion. Biohub expects its first open dataset in about a year, with accurate predictive models within the next five years.

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