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A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push

aired Oct 20, 2026 · 63.0m
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Summary

Hello, and welcome back to The Cognitive Revolution.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, think, really, including: Today, my guest is Alex Reeves, formerly co-founder and chief scientist at Evolutionary Scale, makers of the ESM series of models, and currently head of science at Biohub.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Today, my guest is Alex Reeves, formerly co-founder and chief scientist at Evolutionary Scale, makers of the ESM series of models, and currently head of science at Biohub
  2. 02From there, we get Alex's perspective on why today's virtual cell models have not revolutionized medicine
  3. 03The heart of the issue, Alex says, is that our ability to observe what matters in biology is still very limited by the measurement technology we have available
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