Hugging Face announced Carbon-X, an open-weight AI model designed specifically to help scientists to “chat directly with” and analyze DNA.

AI is revolutionizing countless industries, with science and research being among the foremost examples. DNA is enabling scientists to solve problems and create medicines in a fraction of the time it would normally take. As one of the advanced forms of study, analyzing DNA has traditionally taken a tremendous amount of computing power.

Hugging Face’s new model is designed to make analyzing DNA much more affordable and require far less computing power, according to TechRepublic . The new model was built in collaboration with Italy’s University of Naples Federico II and China’s Zhongguancun Academy.…