Alex Rives

Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Rives pioneered protein language modeling by leading the Evolutionary Scale Modeling team at Meta FAIR and co-founding EvolutionaryScale. He serves as Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, directing initiatives that combine large-scale AI with biological wet labs.

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Alex Rives: Protein language models emergently learn biological structure and function

“One of the classes of models that we train are these protein language models. So they're really, you know, it's trained on the codes of proteins, and so anything they learn about biology is, is kind of emergent. And we've seen that they can learn things like b…”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 15:35 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Insight

Rives: Next-Token AI Models Can Learn Biological World Models from Data

“We have these systems that can basically kind of predict the next token and they can, you know, learn, World models from that. They can learn biology from the data.”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 9:04 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Alex Rives: Protein language models emergently learn biological structure and function

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 15:35 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Rives: ESM Fold achieves SOTA in protein and antibody interaction benchmarks

“And it's really, you know, hitting state of the art across pretty much every structure prediction benchmark, and especially on protein, protein interactions and protein antibody interactions, which is really critical for therapeutic design.”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 29:32 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Alex Rives: Mechanistic interpretability will uncover biology inside protein models

“The hope is that you kind of really learn the underlying basis for how it's making the predictions, and so you open up the black box and you can actually understand kind of the biology that the model is representing.”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 16:49 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Rives: ESM Fold has predicted structures for over 1.1 billion proteins

“So we folded over 1.1 billion proteins and predicted their structures and identified kind of features connecting all of them through mechanistic interpretability.”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 29:05 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Rives: Users are pairing ESM models with AI agents for automated design

“I think one of the really interesting things that we've been seeing is people kind of connecting it with agentic systems to just kind of do automated design and kind of just automate that, that whole process.”

Alex Rives Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 46:24 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Disclosure

Zuckerberg: Biohub leadership shifted from biologists to AI researchers

“Prior to Alex leading the effort, the previous leaders of the Biohub were basically primarily biologists who were interested in technology, right? And now I think we, this is the point where we really flipped that, right? Where, I mean, obviously you have a ba…”

Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 53:00 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg	Jun 10, 2026	11m

Alex Rives

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