Forbes February 24, 2025
Famed chip maker and hardware giant Nvidia has been investing significant resources into the healthcare and life sciences spaces. Its latest move was announced last week as it launched, in partnership with the Arc Institute, the largest biology foundation model developed to-date.
The new model, named Evo 2, was built on the Nvidia DGX Cloud platform and was trained on a dataset of nearly 9 trillion DNA and RNA subcomponents (nucleotides) and 128,000 genomes, representing perhaps one of the largest and most monumental efforts globally to understand the building blocks and genetic code for all domains of life.
Importantly, given how extensive the model’s training is, it has incredible...