Stanford researchers pointed a genome-writing AI called Evo 2 at a single virus and asked it to generate brand-new genetic sequences that have never existed in nature. They built nearly 300 of them in a lab. 16 came alive — fully functional viruses capable of infecting and killing bacteria on their own. This is the moment "AI designs life" stopped being hypothetical.
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