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- Hugging Face released Carbon-X, an open-source DNA-chat model, on Thursday with partners in China and Italy.
- Carbon-X runs locally on laptops, keeping patient data private.
- The model fine-tuned Qwen3-14B on human, mammal, plant and fungal DNA and omits viruses from training.
- Researchers can query mutation effects, receive risk predictions with explanations, and generate new DNA sequences for gene-therapy research.