Continuing the previous post, here's a topic you can dive into before bed 😴
Something important is happening in the US that almost nobody talks about over here. Except, of course, for Andrey Doronichev's interview with Yury Dud. And yes, you got it right — this isn't just about Wellness & Biohacking, it's about AI biology.
One such project is biohub.ai. It's backed by the Meta founders (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative). They're building a "world model for biology" — essentially GPT, but instead of text as input you have proteins, cells, the immune system. They've already released ESMC, ESMFold2, ESM Atlas: an open database of 6.8 billion proteins. Budget is roughly $1 billion a year, with a target of 10,000 GPUs by 2028.
The logic is dead simple: where a single drug used to take decades to develop, now you first simulate everything with the model and only take what already works virtually into the lab. The same principle now drives "personal cancer vaccines," which, by the way, have shown up in Russia too (for melanoma). There are dozens of similar projects in YC right now.
📌 In 2023 I ended up in the ICU. And a year ago I had two surgeries, a month apart. It's May now, exactly a year since the last one.
Since childhood I wanted one thing: business, capital, big systems. My father did this, I watched and understood I'd be doing the same. But there was a second thought I rarely voiced out loud. When real capital shows up, I want to invest part of it not just into business. Into medicine. Into specific technologies that extend life. Honestly, I want to live a very long time. Ideally, not die at all.
Our health isn't just one of the spokes in the wheel of life balance, it's the prerequisite for everything else. When the body or the psyche starts falling apart, everything else immediately breaks down after it. And probably one of the reasons I left my homeland is that I want to be closer to a world that invests in the future, rather than one living off wars and the history of the past.
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It's not entrepreneurs who are in power.
Not people who build things. Not people who think 20 years ahead. The ones sitting up there came for 5 years and know what they need to grab in time.
In Russia, a deputy defense minister takes kickbacks on government contracts while the country is at war. Arrested right at his desk. A billion rubles. Same story in Ukraine: state purchases of medical equipment at triple the market price + theft in the energy sector.
That's exactly why they don't care when doctors, engineers, and programmers leave. First place in Europe for brain drain. A demographic catastrophe they're trying to plug with migrants from less economically developed countries, while preaching about patriotism and "national interests" on the side.
The best ones left, and those who left aren't coming back. The only ones coming back are those who couldn't make it abroad, who didn't pull it off. The result? There is no result, really. Bandits ran the post-Soviet economy into the ground, and they're still "running" it the same way. And unfortunately, this system works exactly as it was designed to. It only gets worse from here…
Criticize actions, not people. Because when you criticize a person, you're judging them and pigeonholing them, slapping on a label. And as Leo Tolstoy said: any assessment of personality is meaningless, because personality changes.