STAT March 2, 2023
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Big Tech betting on AI protein designs
TikTok teens? More like TikTok proteins. Big Tech is getting into the AI protein design game. Salesforce published a paper in Nature Biotech introducing a protein language model called ProGen that can create new protein sequences for specific functions. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, recently introduced a method for adapting other protein language models to create new sequences, and Meta has been deep in protein research since 2019.
It might seem unusual for tech companies to approach a classically biological...
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