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Oct 9, 2026
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However, the bottleneck here is almost incomprehensible in scale.
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Biohub's science lead, Alex Rives, framed the data reality in remarkably candid terms.
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The most advanced biological datasets available globally today capture information on hundreds of millions of cells.
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To train a model that actually functions as a universal virtual cell researchers need structured telemetry on trillions of cells.
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And the scale of this is just hard to wrap your head around.
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Alex Rives, the science head over at Biohub, he noted that today's data sets have maybe hundreds of millions of cells.
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Right.
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But to get accurate models, he says they need data on trillions of cells.
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And the sheer mind-bending scale required to make that simulator accurate is wild.
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Biohub science head Alex Rives explicitly pointed out that to make a predictive biological model that actually works, they need data on trillions of cells.
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Trillions.
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Wow.
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She also began using the term software engineering at a time when people still joked about it.
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During the Apollo 11 landing, the computer raised an overload alarm.
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Her team's software dropped less important tasks to keep the critical ones running, and the landing went ahead.
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[upbeat music] On Tuesday, OpenAI published hundreds of math results from an internal model that it has not released.