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Our progress on the science of scaling, architecture and systems for general biological intelligence
Radical Numerics raises $50M seed to build general biological intelligence
Eric, Michael, Stefano & Armin · June 15, 2026
We've raised $50M to build general biological intelligence, and we're previewing Omnii, our next-generation genome language model for both human health and biodefense.
Continue readingA new era of biological threats, and the technology to defend against them
Radical Numerics · June 15, 2026
Omnii's first biodefense results, spanning paraphrased pathogen detection and fitness scoring of viral variants beyond standard methods.
Continue readingA new frontier in generative genomics with Omnii
Radical Numerics · June 15, 2026
A research preview of Omnii, our next-generation genome language model.
Continue readingNVFP4 pretraining: systems optimizations (Part 2)
Jerome Ku and others at Radical Numerics · January 12, 2026
A deep dive into TransformerEngine's implementation of the NVFP4 recipe: nvfp4 data flow, custom kernels, and systems optimizations for performant FP4 training.
Continue readingNVFP4 pretraining: from theory to implementation (Part 1)
Jerome Ku, Michael Poli, and others at Radical Numerics · January 12, 2026
NVIDIA's NVFP4 pretraining recipe: floating point fundamentals, the evolution of mixed-precision training, and the techniques that enable stable NVFP4 training.
Continue readingPhalanx: hardware-aligned sliding-window recurrences
Garyk Brixi, Dragos Secrieru, Stefano Massaroli and others at Radical Numerics · October 14, 2025
Phalanx: a drop-in replacement for sliding window attention. Faster and better quality. Hardware- and numerics-aware design of new layers that push the efficiency-quality frontier
Continue readingRND1: simple, scalable AR-to-diffusion conversion
Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Armin W. Thomas and others at Radical Numerics · October 9, 2025
Introducing RND1-30B, the largest open-source diffusion language model, trained via AR-to-Diffusion conversion with a simple, scalable recipe.
Continue readingHow AI could generate new life forms
Eric Nguyen · September 12, 2025
Eric's TED talk on next-generation AI models for generative genomics.
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