Biohub expands Virtual Biology Initiative to $1.8 billion with DeepMind, Meta and US agencies

On October 7 Biohub announced expansion of its Virtual Biology Initiative to a total $1.8 billion commitment including a new $300 million joint investment from Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta, more than $500 million from the Department of Energy, and NIH coordination of prior datasets. The effort aims to generate large-scale open multi-modal biological data for training predictive AI models of cellular behavior. This represents a structural increase in coordinated public-private investment for AI-ready biology data infrastructure.