Ravi Solanki

Scaling laws for the brain on the way...

1/ Today we announce Pleiades, a series of epigenetic foundation models (90M→7B params) trained on 1.9T tokens of human methylation & genomic data. Pleiades accurately models epigenetics for genomic track prediction, generation & neurodegenerative disease detection from cfDNA,…

Our customer @PrimaMente is using Nebius to train Pleiades, the first foundation model based on the chemical language of DNA methylation — with variants of 90M, 600M and 7B and pre-training on 1.9T tokens. At @NVIDIA #GTCParis and @VivaTech, co-founder @ravi_sola shared more.

A beautiful piece on the value and nuance of through-running, unifying suburban and metro rail systems - and a special section on the Lizzy Line in London, a true marvel in investment for public benefit and commute. Very impressed @carto_graph worksinprogress.co/issue/the-magi…

Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness. Our agents generated the hypotheses, designed the experiments, analyzed the data, iterated, even made figures…

An interesting application of multi-agents applied to real-world contexts Navigating human dynamics, this is the only project I've seen that captures the intrigue of the future today @freysa_ai freysa.ai/digital-twin?r…

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

With today’s launch of Altos Labs, we celebrate this community of leading scientists, clinicians, and industry leaders. We are excited to pursue cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health with the goal to reverse disease. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

What’s your first word on #wordle and why? And does it stay the same or does it change?

While Boris + co were having parties, my friends and I were either: isolating; treating patients and providing compassion at the end of life; working on vaccines; raising money for overstretched healthcare workers - everything a government should be doing

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Happy Diwali! In a year of great adversity, focussing on light and a bright future ahead is comforting and encouraging Anyone in London should have some gulab jamun from @Asma_KhanLDN today

Alongside Meta, the American Cancer Society is advertising a job for a crypto and NFT strategist - we're only at the cusp of this next era of our digital world themetaversejobs.com/job/product-ma…

We’ve acquired the MuJoCo physics simulator (mujoco.org) and are making it free for all, to support research everywhere. MuJoCo is a fast, powerful, easy-to-use, and soon to be open-source simulation tool, designed for robotics research: dpmd.ai/mujoco-blog

Transformative science deserves to be democratised, not shackled by structures of capital constraint - modern models of innovation and incentive are needed nytimes.com/2021/10/09/bus…

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

#NobelPrize laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960’s. Until his recent retirement he was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury.