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Bio-AI is All Atlases and Nowhere to Go

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By Jake Wintermute
| Substack
In 1895 the Michelin brothers made an early bet on AI. And by AI, I mean of course the Automobile Industry. They expanded their business that sold rubber parts, Michelin SCA, into the new and growing market for car tires. It was a classic horizontal supply chain play. Because every car needed tires, regardless of who had manufactured it or what it was being used for, their business was positioned to win as long as the industry as a whole was growing. By 1926, that bet was starting to pay off.
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Biology has a design language and we know how to learn it

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By Jake Wintermute, Christina Agapakis, Patrick Boyle
| Substack
In the early 1920s, factories were mass-producing furniture that was cheap but ugly. People wanted beautiful furniture, and artisans knew how to craft it, but their techniques didn’t translate to the assembly line and so were impossible to scale. At the Bauhaus School under Walter Gropius, designers learned to translate between the artisanal and industrial ways of working. The Bauhaus developed a design language for creating objects that were both beautiful and manufacturable.
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Google and Ginkgo: Foundry-Scale Data Meets AI

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By Jake Wintermute
| ginkgobioworks.com
This is a moment to reflect on the transformations that AI is bringing to biology, and the role AI will play in Ginkgo’s mission to make biology easier to engineer. The scope of the AI transformation is so massive that this isn’t the first moment to reflect on it, and it won’t be the last.
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