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Bioptimus raises $35 million seed round to develop AI foundational model focused on biology


Bioptimus is a new generative AI startup based in Paris focused exclusively on developing foundational models for biology.

But what makes Bioptimus interesting is that it plans to apply everything we’ve collectively learned about AI models over the past few years with a narrow, exclusive focus on biology. The reason why it makes to sense to create a startup focused exclusively on biology is that access to training data isn’t as simple in this field. “Eventually, the AI we build will improve disease diagnosis, precision medicine, and will help create new biomolecules for medical or environmental use,” Vert said.

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