mRNA language models across 25 species are trained for $165

Claim

Open-source labs are training mRNA language models across 25 species for $165, while Gladstone Institutes and Nvidia unveiled a temporal model trained on nearly a trillion gene tokens that simulates cell-state trajectories across the human lifespan.

Reported metric: $165 / 1T gene tokens

Reporting date: 2026-04-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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