Meta AI Mafia strikes again: EvolutionaryScale secures $142 million in seed funding
In August 2023, as part of Mark Zuckerberg’s “year of efficiency” that led to more than 20,000 layoffs, Meta disbanded a research team of a dozen scientists who had trained a large AI language model for biology. But Alexander Rives, who led the research cohort known as Meta’s “AI protein team,” wasn’t deterred by Meta’s … Read more