Artificial Intelligence
EvolutionaryScale
A protein-design foundation model company founded by former Meta AI researchers, positioned as a horizontal, OpenAI-for-proteins platform rather than an applied biologics or optimization tool. EvolutionaryScale raised $142 million in a single seed round in June 2024 -- by far the largest seed financing on record in synthetic biology -- and released the open weights and code for ESM3, its flagship protein language model, alongside a freely available AI-generated fluorescent protein sequence.
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- C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) — EvolutionaryScale launches with record $142M seed, releases ESM3 open weights62% source confidence
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Jan 2024 · Releases ESM3 protein language model open weights
EvolutionaryScale released the open weights and code for ESM3, its flagship protein language model, alongside a freely available AI-generated fluorescent protein sequence.
Jun 2024 · Launches with record $142M seed round
EvolutionaryScale launched with a $142 million seed round, the largest seed financing on record in synthetic biology, founded by former Meta AI researchers.