
Evo 2 Is the Largest Open-Source Biology AI Ever Built
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.
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Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.

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