NVIDIA, in collaboration with the Arc Institute research institution, has released AI designed to train DNA from over a hundred thousand living species to search for longevity and design new genes.
The usage patterns are diverse. For instance, the team inserted the breast cancer gene BRCA1 into Evo 2 and found that the model could predict whether the cancer was aggressive with up to 90% accuracy. Another usage is checking the side effects of therapeutic genes to see if the edited gene affects only the desired cells. Evo 2 can easily design new genes at the bacterial level.
For safety reasons, the research team did not train the model with genes of human-infectious diseases to prevent their misuse in creating disease weapons.
The models were trained using DGX Cloud AI on AWS, using over 2,000 NVIDIA H100 chips. The models and codes are available on GitHub.
TLDR: NVIDIA, along with the Arc Institute, has developed AI capable of training DNA from various living species to discover longevity and create new genes. The models were trained using DGX Cloud AI on AWS with over 2,000 NVIDIA H100 chips.
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