Michael Koeris
@mkoeris
Director of the Biological Technologies Office @DARPA. BOD @addgene. Serial founder Vulcan Biologics, GDMC, Sample6 (acq.), Corvium (acq.); frm. Prof @KeckGrad!
Back to working 7 days a week and sleeping in the office if my little kids are away
Wartime CEO Engaged. "7 days a week sleeping in the factory, No one should put these many hours into work, this is not good, this is very painful, it hurts my brain and my heart." -Elon Musk
HLE has recently become the benchmark to beat for frontier agents. We @FutureHouseSF took a closer look at the chem and bio questions and found about 30% of them are likely invalid based on our analysis and third-party PhD evaluations. 1/7
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Check out the post: erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-ready-… Contains: - How we use it - How to set it up yourself - Information on the corpus we've amassed - if you're an AI researcher and think you could get insights out of this, reach out!
Thanks so much to ElevenLabs for their original Notion ELN template!! 🫶🙏 We have gotten such good use out of it, and by writing this guide I hope to pay it forward!
An AI-ready lab notebook for life science doesn't need to be complex or expensive. At @Pioneer__Labs, we use a lab management system built entirely with generic software tools. It's simple, cheap, and easy to modify. See our now how-to post ⬇️
chat is anyone known to be working on training frontier models trained almost entirely just on mathematical self play? I think many people have an intuition this could produce a very smart and lightweight reasoning entity that doesn’t innately know much? has this been tried?
We’ve updated our analysis of the trends of leading models. The takeaway? The amount of compute used to train frontier AI models has grown by 5x per year since 2020.
230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s, are operational for training Grok @xAI in a single supercluster called Colossus 1 (inference is done by our cloud providers). At Colossus 2, the first batch of 550k GB200s & GB300s, also for training, start going online in a few weeks. As Jensen…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and @xAI “Never been done before – xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish. That is superhuman – There's only one person in the world who could do that – Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering.”
America is blessed to have the most lethal fighting force in the world.
Semper Supra @SpaceForceDoD
📢 NODES Proposers Day Alert: Coming August 1!📢 If you’re working at the intersection of AI and molecular biology, this is your moment. 🤩 DARPA BTO’s new NODES program aims to revolutionize how we predict protein function—fast, scalable, and critical for next-gen biodefense.…
America's sons and daughters who serve in our military deserve the best leaders. Which is why we are reforming the promotion system at DOD. @stuartscheller
After the apoptosis of the Last Supper, we knew it. Clearly, we knew what we needed to do at the End of the Cold War. We might only do it now, in the midst of Cold War II. Because Winning Matters.
For over thirty years now, we have had a law on the books that should have sounded the death knell for the dominance of the primes over defense industry: The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, which legally encodes a preference for commercial solutions in procurement.
Congrats to @adamlewisgreen and @MarkovBio for the lead there. Let’s see
To me, this is a wildly unexpected take. So it's especially interesting that Markov Bio is currently (July 19 12pm) atop the Arc competition leaderboard. virtualcellchallenge.org/leaderboard
To me, this is a wildly unexpected take. So it's especially interesting that Markov Bio is currently (July 19 12pm) atop the Arc competition leaderboard. virtualcellchallenge.org/leaderboard
virtual cells are currently bottlenecked by compute, not novel data: drug discovery is an iterative search process (design, test, analyze) through therapeutic design space guided by a dynamics model directly trawling this therapeutic space with large hypothesis-free…
A.I. gives the American worker 'superpowers': Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (July 18, 2025) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
📢 ONE WEEK LEFT! Abstracts for DARPA’s #CoasterChase program are due on 7/24 🗓️ We’re calling on the brightest minds in: 🔹 Bioelectronics 🔹 Neuroscience 🔹 Ingestible tech 🔹 Stress modulation 💡@DARPA’s CoasterChase🎢 aims to modulate the body’s natural stress…
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵