Hugging Face is launching a new AI model that lets scientists 'chat with DNA'

Hugging Face released a new AI model that can analyze and generate DNA sequences. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Hugging Face is releasing an AI model that could make it easier for scientists to study DNA and develop new genetic treatments, the company announced Thursday.

Carbon-X is a "first of its kind" model that combines DNA analysis and generation with plain language, allowing researchers to ask questions and essentially "chat with DNA," according to Lewis Tunstall, a senior research scientist at Hugging Face.

Hugging Face, which Nvidia agreed to acquire for nearly $13 billion in September, is a platform for sharing and developing AI models and also releases its own. The company worked with research labs in Italy and China on Carbon-X, which is an open-source model. Hugging Face built Carbon-X by training an existing language model, Qwen3-14B, on genomic sequences and natural language.…