Pinal AI model designs working proteins from plain-language descriptions

In short

• Pinal, a 16-billion-parameter AI model, designs functional proteins from natural-language descriptions.
• Designed proteins showed experimentally validated activities in the study.
• The model also improved CO2-fixation product yields without iterative optimisation.

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The study reports proteins designed from text descriptions alone, without repeated rounds of optimisation. Those proteins were tested in the lab, and CO2-fixation product yields improved in the reported experiments. These are research results, and the source does not describe any clinical or commercial use yet.

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