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EvolutionaryScale launches with $142 million for AI protein design

by Laura Howes
June 29, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 20

 

Another protein design firm powered by artificial intelligence has launched. This one has over $142 million in seed funding and claims its algorithm can simulate 500 million years of evolution, hence its name: EvolutionaryScale. The founding team met while building a large language model (LLM) to design proteins at Meta. That original LLM was called ESM1. EvolutionaryScale debuts with ESM3, which the team used to design a new green fluorescent protein.

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