Bio-security Is an AI Arms Race: Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen on Genomic Language Models

Summary

Radical Numerics co-founder Eric Nguyen discusses genomic language models and biosecurity. He helped develop Evo and Evo 2; a separate Arc/Stanford team later used those models to generate and synthesize functional bacteriophage genomes. The interview distinguishes three sequence scales: an average human gene is about 60K, long genes can reach 2.3M, and the whole human genome is around 3B. Nguyen argues that models which increase biological capability can also help defense keep pace. The 2.3M figure describes a long gene, not the whole genome.