Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization co-founded by Silvana Konermann, Patrick Hsu, and Patrick Collison that focuses on biology, human health, and AI research. Arc Institute's Twitter Score is 102 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #6,935 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Arc Institute was co-founded and launched publicly in December 2021, offering researchers eight-year funded terms as part of its model for long-horizon scientific work. It operates in close partnership with Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco, while remaining structurally independent from all three. Its founding donors include Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, and John Collison, connecting the institute to both the crypto and technology sectors from its earliest days.
Arc Institute's research portfolio spans foundational work at the intersection of AI and the life sciences. Notable outputs include Evo 2, a biological foundation model, and STATE, a virtual-cell model, both representing the institute's commitment to building large-scale computational tools for understanding biology. Arc Institute has published 803 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 41 accounts a total of 62 times, reflecting sustained engagement from the research and technology communities.
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