Fierce Biotech August 29, 2023
By Conor Hale

Ginkgo Bioworks is getting into the large language model game by inking a five-year artificial intelligence partnership with Google Cloud.

The company hopes to turn the type of technology that underpins programs such as ChatGPT toward synthetic biology by training models on genomic and protein data instead of internet images or the written word.

Under the deal, Ginkgo will make Google Cloud its primary computing services provider, while Google Cloud will provide an unspecified amount of funding “to help Ginkgo achieve certain milestones over the next three years,” the companies said in their announcement.

“Our strategic partnership with Ginkgo is a first-of-its-kind for Google Cloud, underscoring our confidence that...

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