Radical Numerics launches with $50M to build general biological intelligence
Radical Numerics Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab building what it calls general biological intelligence, launched today with $50 million in funding to scale its models and hire frontier AI talent.
The company is the work of the team behind generative genomics, the field built around Evo, the first AI model able to read and write DNA at scale and the largest fully open-source AI project in any domain. Evo and its successor Evo 2 made the cover of Science and Nature and external scientists later used the model to generate the first complete AI-designed genome, a bacteriophage that infects bacteria and is harmless to humans.
Radical Numerics is building a class of models that learn directly from biological data across DNA, RNA, proteins and beyond, folding the separate strands of biology into a single system. The company argues that multimodal models reasoning across every dimension of biology at once can open paths to cancer diagnostics, drug target identification and biosecurity that single-modality models cannot reach.
Alongside the launch, the company previewed Omnii, its next-generation genomic language model. Radical Numerics says early results show Omnii setting a new state of the art in identifying causal regulatory variants and transferring zero-shot to experimental settings. Without specific training, the model recovers experimentally validated functional variants at genetic locations tied to Alzheimer’s disease and it also leads on detecting AI-generated or AI-manipulated pathogens.
