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A world model of protein biology is released

development2026-05-28

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The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub released a world model of protein biology built on ESMC, a language model trained on 2.8 billion sequences from across all of life, plus ESMFold2 for atomic structures and an ESM Atlas mapping 6.8 billion proteins.

Reported metric: 2.8B sequences / 6.8B proteins

Reporting date: 2026-05-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to May 28, 2026

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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

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A world model of protein biology is released
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Reporting date: 2026-05-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-28-a-world-model-of-protein-biology
Claim: The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub released a world model of protein biology built on ESMC, a language model trained on 2.8 billion sequences from across all of life, plus ESMFold2 for atomic structures and an ESM Atlas mapping 6.8 billion proteins.
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- Welcome to May 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-28-2026
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