Zuckerberg's Biohub Pulls $1.8B From Meta, Google DeepMind and US Government for Virtual Cell AI

Biohub, backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, unveiled a $1.8B cross-sector push on Oct 7 to build open biology datasets for AI training. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs collectively committed $300M; the DOE pledged over $500M across five years, with NIH coordinating data built on $500M of earlier federal funding. Partners including NVIDIA, Arc Institute and Tahoe Therapeutics are targeting a predictive 'virtual cell' within five years, with the first dataset due in roughly 12 months.