Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...