Evo 2 DNA Foundation Model Published in Nature

Summary

Evo 2, a DNA foundation model that learns patterns across genomic data from across the tree of life, has been formally published in the journal Nature. The model was first released as a preprint in February 2025 and represents an application of large-scale transformer-based modeling to biological sequence data rather than natural language or code. While the publication marks a significant milestone in AI-for-science and demonstrates the expanding reach of foundation model architectures beyond t