ProGen

Salesforce · 2023 · Science/Biology · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Salesforce
C · CEO & Politics: Marc Benioff — Historically a major Democratic/liberal donor; publicly engaged the Trump administration in 2024-25 (declined its inaugural fund)
D · Date: 2023
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: Ali Madani (Lead author), Nikhil Naik (Senior author)
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, BSD-3-Clause license)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Salesforce's ProGen, a 1.2B-parameter language model trained on about 280 million protein sequences conditioned on taxonomic and keyword tags (such as molecular function and cellular component), letting it generate protein sequences with fine-grained control as measured by sequence similarity, secondary-structure accuracy and conformational energy.
S · Stock / Status: $230 (CRM, Sep 30, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @salesforce
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Science/Biology from Salesforce, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“ProGen.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/progen.html