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Advances in AI and Protein Synthesis

Such a model enables comprehensive and accurate protein synthesis, design, and analysis, leading to advancements in biological research, medical therapies, and biotechnology by precisely controlling and predicting protein behaviors.

Challenges may include ensuring ethical use, managing the computational demands and data privacy concerns, addressing potential biases in AI-generated outputs, and navigating intellectual property issues for the technologies and discoveries produced.

Notable backers include Teal Balaji, Stanley Dren Miller, and Brian Johnson.

GFP is used for DNA editing because it glows under specific lighting, making it easy to track. ESM GFP, created by ESM3, is a new protein with 58% similarity to the closest known fluorescent protein.

ESM3's open model policy involves releasing the model weights and codes on GitHub for research and nonprofit use, facilitating widespread research and potential breakthroughs in various fields.

ESM3 can simulate 500 million years of evolution, focusing on programming with the code of life.

The Etched AI chip processes over 500,000 tokens per second, significantly outpacing Nvidia's GPUs (e.g., H100s), and is equivalent to the performance of 160 H100s.

An ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) is specialized in running specific types of applications. For the Etched AI chip, it is specialized in running inference on Transformer models, making it highly efficient.

The Etched AI chip can process over 500,000 tokens per second, which is likened to processing the entire Harry Potter series in under 3 seconds.

The Chain of Thought method involves generating multiple versions of a protein sequence and testing them iteratively to optimize and improve the desired properties, such as brightness in fluorescent proteins.

ESM GFP demonstrates ESM3's ability to generate new proteins with specific properties. Though initially less bright, iterative improvements led to ESM GFPs with brightness comparable to natural GFPs, highlighting the model’s optimization capabilities.

DeepMind's AlphaFold significantly contributes to ESM3's understanding of protein structures by predicting the 3D configuration of proteins from their sequences.

With its faster and more efficient processing capabilities, the Etched AI chip could significantly accelerate development and deployment of AI applications, fostering innovation and competition in the AI hardware market.

ESM3's capabilities could revolutionize biology, drug discovery, and protein engineering by making biology programmable and reducing reliance on trial-and-error methods.

ESM3 tokenizes biological properties such as sequence, structure, and function. The sequence refers to the amino acids arrangement, structure refers to the 3D configuration, and function refers to what the proteins do based on their sequence and structure.