🔬 **AI赋能生物医学研究新纪元**：扎克伯格夫妇的Biohub基金将AI置于其科学研究的核心，旨在通过先进的AI算法和计算能力，以前所未有的速度理解和应对人类疾病。这标志着一个新时代的开始，即利用技术的力量加速生命科学的突破。

🚀 **加速疾病攻克，目标前所未有**：基金会明确表示，AI的进步使得在“本世纪内治愈或预防所有疾病”的目标有可能“更早实现”。通过专注于AI驱动的生物学，他们希望将原本需要数十年才能完成的科学发现，压缩到数月之内，从而为人类健康带来革命性的改变。

💡 **战略重心转移，聚焦科学突破**：自2016年成立以来，Biohub经历了战略上的演变。从最初涵盖教育、公共政策和疾病治疗的广泛目标，到如今将AI与生物学深度结合，基金会展现了其对科学前沿的坚定承诺，并已开始缩减在教育等领域的投入，将资源集中于最有可能产生颠覆性影响的科学领域。

💻 **计算能力升级，支撑前沿探索**：为了支撑AI在生物医学领域的广泛应用，Biohub计划在2028年前将其GPU（图形处理器）计算能力扩展至10,000个。这一大规模的计算能力提升，是实现AI驱动的生物学研究和加速科学发现的关键基础设施，将为解决复杂的生物学挑战提供强大支撑。

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's charity has launched an initiative combining AI and biology.Biohub announced the initiative on Thursday, saying it will use AI to advance scientific research.It's the latest pivot for the charity, which originally launched to fix education and cure disease.

The philanthropy that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, cofounded is shifting its focus.

That's good news for some, not such good news for others.

In a blog post on Thursday, the couple said they would now prioritize their philanthropic efforts on Biohub, a group of biology labs it has supported since 2016.

On the same day, Biohub said it would partner with EvolutionaryScale to leverage AI to "dramatically accelerate scientific progress toward understanding and addressing human disease."

"When we started, our goal was to help scientists cure or prevent all diseases this century," Zuckerberg said in a press release. "With advances in AI, we now believe this may be possible much sooner. Accelerating science is the most positive impact we think we can make. So we're going all in on AI-powered biology for our next chapter."

Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged to give away half their wealth, which could amount to well over $200 billion. When the couple first launched their foundation in 2015, they said it would focus on fixing education, public policy, as well as curing disease.

These days, like Meta itself, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has pivoted from those earlier goals to focus on AI.

In 2023, it laid off dozens of employees working in its education segment, ended its education policy grants portfolio, and shifted its focus away from an education tool it had previously developed. Last year, Chan said CZI would prioritize funding science.

"While CZI remains committed to our work in education and our local communities, we recognize that science is where our biggest investments and bets have been and will be made moving forward," Chan wrote in an email to staffers in 2024.

Under the latest initiative, Biohub said it's committing to four scientific challenges, including "using AI to reprogram and harness the immune system for early detection, prevention, and treatment of disease."

To achieve this, Biohub said it will expand its compute capacity to 10,000 GPUs by 2028.

"As we make progress on these kinds of systems, we believe it might eventually become possible to achieve decades of discoveries in months," Biohub said in a press release. "We believe this will come together to unlock frontier medicine."