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The speaker says some heavily funded startups have described plans to build a biology foundation model or decode biology without specifying a concrete application.
Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026
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“And there's a few startups that, you know, got really quite strong investment that also said, "We build a foundation model of biology, we decode biology," and so on, without actually saying what you wanna do with it.”38:39Report a misattribution
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