Venter demonstrates the first living synthetic bacterial cell

Claim

J. Craig Venter and collaborators demonstrated the first living synthetic bacterial cell by transplanting a complete genome into a dead cell, while Roche deployed 3,500 Blackwell GPUs for biological foundation models.

Reported metric: 3,500 GPUs

Reporting date: 2026-03-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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