CLAUDE said this:
Hugging Face’s biology team (led by Loubna Ben Allal) just launched an experimental community system around their open DNA AI models, Carbon and Carbon-X.These models are AIs trained on DNA sequences. Carbon-X (the newest one) can actually chat about DNA in plain English — you can paste in a genetic sequence and ask things like “is this mutation likely to cause disease?” and it explains its reasoning. It’s open-source and surprisingly competitive with much bigger closed models.The new thing is a lightweight coordination layer (using an Ethereum token) that lets the community help improve these models:Burn the token → get discounted credits for community training runs, cleaning DNA data, or running evaluations.
Contribute something useful (better data filters, training mixes, or evaluation methods) → get paid in the token.
Fees help fund public data work, open recipes, and bounties.
Companies that just want production-scale training still pay normal rates. The whole system only continues if the community’s work actually keeps making the open DNA models and data better — otherwise they shut it down.It’s basically an experiment in using a token to coordinate and fund open scientific progress on genomic AI.
From my understanding, if this is not a larp, and she is not hacked, this can send hard. Also followed by pmarca, r/r is really good at this mcap imo
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