Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs back Biohub with $300 million

The funding adds to a $1.8 billion push to build AI datasets for biology and support Biohub’s virtual cell work.

Google DeepMind, Meta, and Isomorphic Labs are putting $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, to build AI datasets for biological research. The money is part of a larger $1.8 billion effort aimed at letting scientists ask and test biology questions digitally, with the goal of improving disease prevention and treatment. Biohub, founded in 2016, is trying to build a “virtual cell” that can be used for simulations. The US Department of Energy will add more than $500 million over five years, and the NIH will provide datasets, repositories, and knowledge bases from earlier federal spending of over $500 million.