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Thanks for the shoutout Elliot Hershberg! This was one of the most exciting parts for us as well. We also found that when using cell embeddings, pre-training on Tahoe-100M improved our zeroshot transfer on genetic or signaling datasets!

Tahoe-100M FTW 💪

Completely agree. Pre-training on quality data for the first time allows for context generalization - > an important milestone in Virtual Cell Not all data is created equal! 🖥️🧬

With more than 18 entries on the leaderboard already, it's great to see the trade-off playing out between the perturbation score and the DE score! We specifically designed these metrics to capture complementary aspects of perturbation response 🧵

Finally had the chance to read Elliot Hershberg's new piece. Very thoughtful. Don't miss it.

Amazing to welcome one of the all time greats of AI and NLP to AIX Ventures Link in reply.

Let’s see how the New York primary would go if my X followers were the voters. Please rank order your choices.

Pleasure to chat with my teammate Vivek Natarajan to nature news, about our work Google DeepMind on AI co-scientist. "What’s it like to work with an AI team of virtual scientists?" 👇 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Applications opening soon for Civilization VC’s 2026 Fellowship — our 6th cohort. Designed to bridge the gap from PhD to startup operator or investor, this program empowers the next generation of biotech leaders. Follow here☝️ to stay updated.

Watching SpaceX launches & landings is one of the most thrilling & captivating experiences for my 3-y old. I asked him today, while watching some of the liftoff videos, whether he wants to be an astronaut. “no I wanna be one of the guys who gets to do the countdown” 😀

Thrilled to collaborate with Mathew Garnett @Sanger and Parse Biosciences on the new Cancer Plasticity Atlas – a hugely exciting single cell genomics resource to decode tumor adaptation and resistance. 🔗 helmholtz-munich.de/en/newsroom/ne… #CancerAI #Plasticity #Atlas

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We love it when others build dev tools for building on Tahoe-100M. Today, we highlight scDataset in our Tahoe Therapeutics blog. Developed by Davide D'Ascenzo & Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano, it makes it easier to train DL models on datasets with the daunting scale of Tahoe-100M (see poster in ICML '25)

This is an incredible program. Founders of any stripe - take a look.

Just got my Comet invite. *Really* pleasant surprise: it's not an MVP - it works! The assistant doesn't mess up; it does what you ask & the link to my broader context (emails, drive, calendar, search) functions beautifully. Rare for v1 products in this rat race.

Excited to join Nima Alidoust and Thomas Miller on stage next week at Decoding Bio and NYSE 🏛’s AIxBio Summit! AI and novel data are reshaping biotech in big ways - can’t wait to dig into the details. See you in NYC! 🧬🚀

Mmm… so the guy got confused about what a “work wife” means and that’s what led him to cheat on his wife!?

I personally find Formation Bio’s story an inspiration for building a biotech brick by brick, with persistence, and with the express purpose of addressing a key bottleneck (not merely a technically novel solution for a solved problem). We have used it as one of the blueprints

A brief musical note: I’m very excited to share that my brilliant wife, a pianist and composer, has just released her debut album featuring works by Iranian women composers, including one of her own. Here is the link in case you’d like to take a listen: navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6747/

On the floor of NYSE for AI x BIO 2025! Thanks Amee Kapadia Pablo Lubroth for the awesome energy and hosting such a talented crowd. 🧬🚀 Nima Alidoust