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# US, Google and Meta Invest $800M in AI Biology Data

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**Published:** 2026-10-07T13:52:30.000Z
**Category:** Data
**Topics:** funding, data\-engineering

## Summary

The US government and tech companies including Google and Meta are investing $800 million in a joint effort to create open\-source biological libraries for machine learning, hosted by the Biohub\. The project aims to develop a virtual cell to advance scientific research using AI\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/us-google-and-meta-invest-800m-in-ai-biology-data-c2969749>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/us-google-and-meta-invest-800m-in-ai-biology-data-c2969749>)