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honored to host Priscilla and @finkd on LS, I think their first joint pod since Huberman 2023
10 years in and @ChanZuckerberg is both the most well funded nonprofit in human history and dead serious in its mission of providing {data,tools,models} to cure and prevent all diseases by end of the century:
- Biohubs have huge pmf (i explain in writeup below) and now CZI is all in on Biohub
- acquiring @EvoscaleAI, the frontier bio research lab backed by @natfriedman
- 10,000 GPU cluster in 3 years
- imaging and cataloging every cell type and releasing for free (billions of them from nm scale up)
- releasing 3 new models for simulating virtual cells: VariantFormer, CryoLens, scLDM
being close to solving single cells; they are now launching the Virtual Immune System project, a flagship effort to model the immense complexity of The ENTIRE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM.
i was very struck by how Priscilla puts it on the pod: if the immune system is working you’re much more likely to be healthy, if it isn’t you’re not. this may cure diseases we don’t even know are directly connected, like Depression (!!)
again, was such a rare honor to host this CZI BioHub pod with @FanaHOVA . Enjoy.
Latent.Space@latentspacepod
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in 2015, committing 99% of their Meta shares to advance science, education, and opportunity. As a pediatrician and CEO of Meta respectively, they've built CZI into one of the most ambitious technology-driven philanthropic organizations with a moonshot goal to help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century. In this episode, we sit down with Priscilla and Mark to unpack how CZI bridges state-of-the-art AI with open biomedical research, their investments in open-source tools like the Human Cell Atlas, their philosophy on building teams across different disciplines, and what they envision the future of healthcare. @czi @swyx @FanaHOVA
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