For the first time, an AI model designed viruses that had never existed in nature (and they worked) 🧬 Scientists used an AI model called Evo, trained on 9 trillion nucleotides across the tree of life, to design viruses that never existed in nature. 🦠 Of ~700,000 generated genomes, they built 300 and 16 came to life, infecting and killing bacterial cells. ⚡ A few AI-designed versions actually spread faster than the natural Phi X 174 💊 The upside is phage therapy against drug-resistant infectio