Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) mission to cure, prevent, and manage all diseases by the end of the century through basic science and tool development. They share insights into their focus on building shared tools and datasets, the Cell Atlas project, and their bet on virtual cells for high-risk hypothesis testing. The conversation explores the integration of frontier biology with frontier AI at Biohub, aiming to accelerate scientific discovery and enable precision medicine by creating models and datasets that are openly accessible to the scientific community. They also discuss their organizational structure, compute resources, and future directions, emphasizing collaboration and the importance of lowering the barrier to entry for interdisciplinary contributions to biological research.