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Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, open-source 14B-parameter model for natural language DNA queries

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Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-source multimodal AI model with 14 billion parameters, trained on 300 billion tokens. The model enables researchers to query DNA sequences using natural language and understand the effects of genetic changes on gene activity and health.

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    Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens (Emily Mullin/Wired)

    Emily Mullin / Wired : Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens — The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

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