February 24, 2025
The Arc Institute, a nonprofit research organization, has published a manuscript on its creation of Evo 2, an AI foundation model that is capable of both understanding and building full genomes of organisms. A new step in understanding biology The authors of this paper, a group of professionals largely from the Arc Institute and well-known...
December 05, 2024
In a new study, ChatGPT 4.0 achieved significantly better diagnostic scores when evaluating complex cases than either unassisted human physicians or physicians who consulted the chatbot [1]. Bad news for human doctors? For millions of people, chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) have quickly become an indispensable source of information on everything from finances...
December 04, 2024
Once confined to the realms of science fiction or relatively crude internet death calculators, AI-driven predictions about longevity are inching closer to reality. Questions about the accuracy and value of these forecasts remain. In recent years, researchers and companies around the globe have been pursuing answers to the ultimate question: How long have we got...
November 08, 2024
Back in 2006, a website called “The Death Clock” appeared on the internet, with a promise to answer one of life’s greatest questions: “When will I die?” Since then, over 60 million people have used the site, which gives a somewhat grim countdown to the day they’ll meet their demise, or does it? Far from...
August 09, 2024
After Oculus was sold to Facebook for two billion dollars a decade ago, Michael Antonov, one of the founders, could have become a major tech investor, a popular podcaster with his own mega-theory of everything, a hedonist, or all of the above. Instead, he gravitated towards the emerging field of longevity biotech, where the uncertainties...
March 14, 2024
In a new paper, InSilico has reported on its impressive success with a drug against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that was created by AI “from A to Z” and is currently in Phase 2 trials [1]. AI against aging Many people in the longevity community hope that the might of AI will help us to untangle...