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🔬 The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub

Latent Space · Swyx & Alessio

27 May 2026 · AI & Tech

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Editor’s note: In our first BioHub pod with Priscilla and Mark they discussed their acquisition of EvoScale, led by Alex Rives, who is now Head of Science at BioHub. With ESM-1 they trained language models on millions of protein sequences drawn from across life, with a simple “next token” objective:

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