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Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’

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Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs jointly invested $300 million to develop a 'virtual cell' platform for disease research, led by Biohub founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. This initiative supports a larger $1.8 billion 'Virtual Biology' project to create AI datasets for digital biological analysis. The initiative launched in 2026 and aims to enable researchers to predict and answer biological questions through high-accuracy predictive modeling.

Key points

• Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs invested $300 million into a 'virtual cell' initiative led by Biohub.
• Biohub was founded in 2016 by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to prevent and cure diseases via predictive modeling.

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Investment figures and project timelines are reported by Reuters; specific operational details and full implementation dates remain unconfirmed.

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