"Being the best is good, but being useful is better" - how Living Models’ BOTANIC AI sets out to tackle climate change for farming
As the climate changes and the earth’s temperature rises, one of the impacts is on food production as crops have to weather harsher droughts and flooding. This is an area where the application of gen AI can be very effective.
One company championing its use is Living Models, the Paris-San Francisco based startup that is building foundation models trained on DNA to transform biology. Set up by Cyril Véran, Leonard Strouk and Bertrand Gakière, the company, which recently announced $7 million in seed funding, pioneers using AI to de-code DNA and accelerate climate-resilient agriculture.
AI-guided selection for seeds
Working out how to develop the right crop variants to suit future environmental requirements is an area where AI has potential. Living Models has launched BOTANIC, a family of transformer models trained on genomic sequences from plants and is training an open-weight model to see how well the models function in the...
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