FDA rejected Neuralink study pitch, Meta and ByteDance get into proteins, & Color layoffs

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Big Tech betting on AI protein designs

TikTok teens? More like TikTok proteins. Big Tech is getting into the AI protein design game. Salesforce published a paper in Nature Biotech introducing a protein language model called ProGen that can create new protein sequences for specific functions. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, recently introduced a method for adapting other protein language models to create new sequences, and Meta has been deep in protein research since 2019.

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