Steve Quake

All right.

And, you know, it's great that there's naysayers.

If everyone agreed this was doable, fine.

Would it be worth doing?

I mean, the whole point is to take risks and get out and do something really challenging in the frontier where you don't know the answer.

If we knew that it was doable, I wouldn't be interested in doing it.

So I personally am happy that there's not a consensus that...

Well, CZI is putting an enormous amount of resources into it.

And it's a major project for us.

We have been laying the groundwork for it.

We recently put together what I think is, if not the largest, one of the largest GPU supercomputer clusters for nonprofit basic science research.

That came online at the end of last year.

And in fact, in December, we put out an RFA project

for the scientific community to propose using it to build models.

And so we're sharing that resource within the scientific community.

As I think you appreciate, one of the real challenges in the field has been access to compute resources.

And industry has academia at a much lower level.

We're able to be somewhere in between, not quite at the level of a private company, the tech company, but at a level beyond what most universities are able to do.

And we're trying to use that to drive the field forward.

We're also planning on launching RFAs this year to help drive this project forward and funding people globally on that.