Carbon: Decoding the Language of Life

In three linesHugging Face releases Carbon, a family of open-source DNA foundation models. Carbon-3B matches SOTA (Evo2-7B) while being 275× faster. The approach adapts modern LLM techniques: deterministic 6-mer tokenization, factorized loss (FNS) mid-training, and curation of functional biological data.

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