iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Steph Batalis @stephbatalis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Evo 2's release yesterday isn’t just impressive (though it is!)—it’s also making waves in the AIxBio policy space as the largest fully-open biological AI model to date. 🧬 ⬇️Here are a few policy implications I’ll be keeping an eye on:

Arc Institute@arcinstitute.org

Announcing Evo 2: The largest publicly available, AI model for biology to date, capable of understanding and designing genetic code across all three domains of life. t.co/1Zt6gQ74SA

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Steph Batalis @stephbatalis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

1. With the Biden EO on AI now revoked, Evo 2's massive size would have triggered the EO’s reporting requirements. Trained with an estimated 2.25 x 10^24 FLOPs, it far exceeds the EO’s 10^23 threshold for biological models. But now, no such obligation exists.

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Steph Batalis @stephbatalis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

2. Even without the EO, Evo 2’s team addressed biosecurity - mainly by removing viruses that infect eukaryotes from training data. However, those sequences could be re-added since the model is open-source, and it's unclear whether they red-teamed other biological threats like bacteria or toxins.

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