Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open 14.8-billion-parameter model that answers questions about DNA sequences in plain language
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An open model you can "talk" to about DNA has appeared, but it is not intended for medical decisions.
The model is built on Alibaba's Qwen3-14B and further trained on about 302 billion tokens of DNA, English text and biology material; it was developed with researchers at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Italy, the University of Naples Federico II and China's Zhongguancun Academy. The user pastes in a sequence, asks a question and gets an answer with an explanation: an estimate of how likely a mutation is to be harmful, as well as new sequences for gene therapy research. Hugging Face reports 66.7% on its own tests versus 67.5% for OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol; the license is Apache 2.0 and, according to The Next Web, it runs on a single 80 GB graphics card. The model description says it has not been clinically validated and should not be used for medical decisions.
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