Adib
@adibvafa
20. ML at @Cohere @VectorInst @ArcInstitute @UHN. Google Lead @googledevs. CS/Neuro @UofT. Founder of Canada's Largest AI Hackathon 🍁
Introducing the world's first reasoning model in biology! 🧬 BioReason enables AI to reason about genomics like a biology expert. A thread 🧵:
When you realize that open-source is at the frontier of AI despite: - less GPUs - less money - less public and policy support - no $100M salaries to attract talent - with closed-source taking advantage and copying all the innovations of open-source without contributing back…
It is exciting to see how many folks are already taking on this challenge! See y'all on the leaderboard!
Over 2,000 people have registered for the Virtual Cell Challenge to create an AI model that can generalize for unseen perturbations. Hundreds of competitors have been submitting results from their models and the race, as you can see from the leaderboard, is heating up:
Tokenization has been the final barrier to truly end-to-end language models. We developed the H-Net: a hierarchical network that replaces tokenization with a dynamic chunking process directly inside the model, automatically discovering and operating over meaningful units of data
You know its AI generated when you see the dash —
#NeurIPS2025 reviews are out, and the authenticity of reviews surprises me again 😟 Two years ago, maybe 1/10 felt AI-assisted. Now? It seems 9/10 are AI-modified, beyond grammar fixes to fully generated reviews. As a researcher in AI-generated content detection, I know these…
Just passed 50 citations! Last year, I only had 5. Incredible how good research compounds
Rubrics as Rewards: Reinforcement Learning Beyond Verifiable Domains 'We introduce Rubrics as Rewards (RaR), a framework that uses structured, checklist-style rubrics as interpretable reward signals for on-policy training with GRPO. Our best RaR method yields up to a relative…
Incredible launch!
introducing Waves, camera glasses for creators. record in stealth. livestream all day. pre-order now.
Mike is an amazing CEO! Few are as experienced as Mike when it comes to Dx. Looking forward to working together as we bring oncRNAs to the clinic.
📣 Leadership News 📣 We’re excited to welcome Michael Nall as CEO and Board Director of Exai Bio. Mike brings decades of diagnostics and commercial expertise that will be instrumental as we scale our RNA- and AI-based liquid biopsy platform and early detection efforts. We’re…
introducing Waves, camera glasses for creators. record in stealth. livestream all day. pre-order now.
We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language User Interface (LUI) An interface that talks to your APIs, understands your product, and lets users get work done with natural language (thread below)
cool stuff happening in Toronto
We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language User Interface (LUI) An interface that talks to your APIs, understands your product, and lets users get work done with natural language (thread below)
the first biology reasoning model was created in toronto and presented @535TORONTO
> train modality specific encoder > expand tokenizer > predict next token > ??? > profit
So much energy at @535TORONTO ! Presented BioReason to an incredible audience
amazing turnout.
📣 AI Lecture Series continues with BIOREASON by @adibvafa He'll talk about: * The first reasoning model made for biology * How that will change the future of pharmaceutical and biomaterial discovery * The biotech ecosystem in Toronto 🗓️ Wed July 23 🎟️ Link below
Imagine if every pattern shaped by nature – like a protein’s fold or cosmic phenomena – is inherently learnable by AI. @DemisHassabis shares with @lexfridman that if AI can learn these natural patterns, we could open doors to new eras of scientific discovery. Listen now. ↓…
Our team is hiring! Please consider applying if you care deeply about data, and want to train sick base models :)) jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/859e2e4…