AI Designs Functional Viral Genomes: Breakthrough in Synthetic Biology
The AI Leap: When Language Models Began to Write Life
For years, Large Language Models (LLMs) like those powering generative AI have been trained on human text. Now, a new generation of LLMs trained on trillions of DNA bases and thousands of known viral genomes has moved from writing code and poetry to designing life itself. This is a true landmark in synthetic biology: researchers successfully used AI to design and generate complete, functional viral genomes from scratch.