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Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs to jointly invest $300M in Biohub's 'virtual cell' data effort (reports)
Announced October 7, 2026
What happened
Citing Reuters, The Verge reported that Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery company Isomorphic Labs will jointly invest $300 million in Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. The funding is part of an $1.8 billion 'virtual cell' initiative to build AI datasets that help researchers predict cell behavior.
Why it matters
Competing Big Tech companies are co-investing in basic life science data. This suggests a shared view that the bottleneck in AI drug discovery and biotech is large-scale training data rather than models.
Confidence medium · official source pending
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