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🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Eric Nguyen, CEO of Radical Numerics, details the journey from early genome language models to Omni, a system that excels in DNA reading, writing, and reasoning. Omni outperforms specialized models in disease-variant prediction, particularly in previously challenging non-coding regions. The discussion also covers the critical need for AI-native biosecurity defenses, addressing how models can design biological sequences that evade current detection systems, and the broader vision for General Biological Intelligence.