Introducing SynthID Bio
September 30, 2026 ScienceIntroducing SynthID BioPushmeet Kohli, David Stutz, Ali Cowen-Rivers and Jeremy Ratcliff Share CopiedProof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. Lower indicates stronger binders.For protein folding, SynthID Bio fine-tunes a small part of AlphaFold 3’s diffusion network, building the ability to watermark directly into the model’s weights. This ensures that the predicted 3D coordinates inherently carry a detectable signature regardless of who runs the model.
- ▪September 30, 2026 ScienceIntroducing SynthID BioPushmeet Kohli, David Stutz, Ali Cowen-Rivers and Jeremy Ratcliff Share CopiedProof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.Today, we’re introdu
- ▪Lower indicates stronger binders.For protein folding, SynthID Bio fine-tunes a small part of AlphaFold 3’s diffusion network, building the ability to watermark directly into the model’s weights.
- ▪This ensures that the predicted 3D coordinates inherently carry a detectable signature regardless of who runs the model.
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September 30, 2026 ScienceIntroducing SynthID BioPushmeet Kohli, David Stutz, Ali Cowen-Rivers and Jeremy Ratcliff Share CopiedProof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. SynthID Bio embeds an imperceptible signature directly into the biological code, ensuring the watermark is verifiable not just on a digital model but on the synthesized, physical protein itself – all while preserving its biological function in laboratory testing.Generative AI is helping scientists address critical biological challenges, from predicting the structure of proteins (AlphaFold) to designing entirely new proteins (AlphaProteo, and ProteinMPNN), and more recently,…
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