KEY POINTS
- Radical Numerics announced Omnii Defense, an edge model that runs offline on a laptop with a USB gene sequencer.
- The model gives each sequence a threat score from zero to one, based on how unnatural it looks and on its predicted function.
- Access is limited to vetted testers while national labs and government agencies evaluate the model.
Radical Numerics, a San Francisco startup, announced on Wednesday a new AI model called Omnii Defense. It is meant to flag dangerous pathogens, whether they occur in nature or were engineered with AI, WIRED reported.
