Season 4 Episode 3 | Bioptimus COO Mathilda Strom on AI, Compute, and the Future of Biological Foundation Models
Mathilda Strom, the Founding COO at Bioptimus, a company aiming to program biology from the ground up
Mathilda shares her journey from building startups across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to helping shape one of the most ambitious AI and biology projects on the planet
We explore: 💡 The true significance of building a multi-scale, multi-modal foundation model for biology🧬 Why training models on biological data is much more challenging than on text or language💰 The risks involved in investing millions in data that may become worthless within a year⚖️ How Bioptimus addresses ethics…
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