Lots of alpha in the STS literature

Ginkgo is going to be an incredible collection of data points on understanding value capture, partnerships, JV selection, and so much more from building in the first generation of TechBio companies. It's easy to be snarky when a company sells off as aggressively as their stock

Y’all are tweeting about founder mode but I’m the one flying to SF to figure out what’s going on. I’m locked in

There’s a discussion on tech twitter which is broadly relevant also to biotech on the idea of “Founder Mode” after Brian Chesky spoke about it at a conference. Fully resonate with what is being said - particularly the idea of normalizing “skip level meetings” which are good for

As someone who has done highly collaborative biology research, sometimes it really fuckin’ sucks. Getting multiple teams of humans aligned is often way harder than doing the actual science part. Does it have to be like that? foundrytheory.substack.com/p/tacit-knowle…

Thanks Jason Kelly for doing this talk. Please keep shareholders updated on automation services, Datapoints, biosecurity, and other upfront paying success stories. Would love to hear from new automation clients as you grow this and make biology easier to engineer for all!

this is a pretty apropos introduction to dan janzen. there’s a moment in bill allen’s book “green phoenix” where he describes dan as climbing a tree to get an insect at the top of it. he slips, falls through branches, hits the ground, and stands up, lecturing the whole while.

SpaceX scripting history with Jared Isaacman #PolarisDawn mission. 1st commercial SO spacewalk, flying through Van Allen belt, cruising 700km above 🌍 🥂 to Chris Mason Joseph ‘Sci’ Borg Spaceomix : crucial members of the research team. Humbled to be part of this breakthrough!!!

RACs are crazy cool. First easily reconfigurable automation for high throughput data gen in bio. Reach out if you want to visit them at our sites in boston or emeryville! Or get them installed in your lab!

It's crazy that we went from John Snow's hand drawn London cholera map from 1852 to today's, individual level, cross species H5N1 tracker from Ginkgo Biosecurity Ginkgo Bioworks. All thanks to genetics, sequencing technologies and computing, which will only scale and get better!

I co-wrote this technical review of AA-0, Ginkgo's first AI model release It's an ESM2-like protein model trained with our in-house metagenomic sequence database ginkgobioworks.com/2024/09/17/aa-… Follow the links in there to get yourself some free inference credits

Big day today at Ginkgo Bioworks: we're pulling back the curtain on our proprietary biological foundation models and launching a model API! Our API will support private and open models, and we're pricing it competitively to enable others to build on top of it. Details in 🧵👇

Metagenomic data is proving to be critical for Bio+AI advances. Curious to test out AA-0 to see what it has learned by sampling from metagenomes, also great seeing its performance on our DGEB benchmark!

Excited to play with this and see what else is on the way this year. Our space needs better foundational tools.

We’re excited to partner with Ginkgo Bioworks to bring their protein LLM and open API to both enterprises and individual scientists, which will help drive innovation in life sciences. goo.gle/3MOYXkn

A reminder: when you find compelling results, we can also help you test and improve those results. If you are not finding the results you'd like, we can create custom datasets that will answer your needs.