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An AI just designed 16 working viruses. None of them existed in nature. They're alive in a Palo Alto lab right now. This is the first time any organism has been created end-to-end by a language model. Same template humans always use for these milestones. ΦX174. 1977: Sanger sequenced ΦX174. First complete genome ever read. 2003: Venter chemically synthesized ΦX174. First whole genome ever written from scratch. 2025: Hie and King used Evo 2 to generate viable ΦX174-like genomes. First genomes…

