METAGENE-1
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Prime Intellect
- C · CEO & Politics
- Vincent Weisser
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Vincent Weisser (Co-founder, CEO), Johannes Hagemann (Co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Science/Biology
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.60
- R · What Makes It Special
- METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer that its authors call a metagenomic foundation model, pretrained on over 1.5 trillion base pairs of DNA and RNA deep-sequenced from human wastewater, with byte-pair encoding tokenization tailored to metagenomic sequences, to capture the full distribution of genomic information across the human microbiome. It is built for pandemic monitoring, biosurveillance and pathogen detection, has a 512-token context and is Apache 2.0-licensed.
- S · Stock / Status
- Decentralized / community
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @PrimeIntellect
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Science/Biology from Prime Intellect, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“METAGENE-1.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/prime-intellect-metagene-1.html