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October 22, 2026

Running a frontier AI research lab with five researchers... and agents→

How a technical team of five runs a 120-GPU B200 cluster. Humans own the research plan; agents share the run monitoring and do most of the evaluation.

September 28, 2026

Google DeepMindNew

Living Models pairs Gemma 4 with BOTANIC-1 to help decode plant DNA→

A Gemmaverse case study. Gemma 4 runs the analysis on a single GPU and calls BOTANIC-1 to score mutations, putting the causal melon mutation first in 9 of 10 runs.

September 8, 2026

Substack

Introducing BOTANIC-1, a new state-of-the-art plant genomic language model→

An introduction to BOTANIC-1 written for AI researchers and plant biologists alike. For the full picture, see the technical report and the model weights below.

September 8, 2026

Hugging Face

BOTANIC-1 weights→

Three model sizes from 318M to 2.1B parameters, model cards, and the pre-training corpus, released for research use.

September 8, 2026

bioRxiv

BOTANIC-1: a series of long-context plant genomic foundation models in the agentic era→

The technical report. Every BOTANIC-1 size outranks the strongest existing plant genomic model on a nine-family benchmark, and the flagship recovers half of validated causal variants in the top 1% of candidates.

March 10, 2026

Substack

The genome is the largest unread library in the universe. We're building the reader.→

Our manifesto: why foundation models for biology, and why plants first.

February 23, 2026

bioRxiv

BOTANIC-0: our first plant genomic foundation model→

The technical report for BOTANIC-0, the first output of the lab.