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Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used the EVO AI model to design new viruses from scratch, and some designs were shown to function in laboratory tests. The study was published in Science; the report names no further step in this research.

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    1. Update 1AI Built 16 Live Viruses That Never Existed Before

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      AI Built 16 Live Viruses That Never Existed Before

      Stanford and Arc researchers used AI to write whole viral genomes from scratch. Sixteen worked — E. coli-killing phages that prove biology can now be generated, not just edited.

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      • The exact number of designs synthesized and tested is not consistently confirmed beyond CNN's about 300.
      • The sources disagree on whether Evo should be described as an OpenAI model or a Stanford and Arc Institute model.

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    Who's involved

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    • Brian L Hieresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-3224-81421 report

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    • Arc Institute3181 Porter Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA1 report
    • Stanford University450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA1 report

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