Google, Meta invest $300M in virtual cell project

Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into a "virtual cell" initiative led by Biohub, a nonprofit founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. The project aims to help researchers combat disease by simulating biological processes digitally. It forms part of a broader $1.8 billion "Virtual Biology" initiative to build AI datasets that would allow researchers to ask, predict, and answer biological questions without physical experiments.