About $1.8 billion in total. On October 7, 2026, Biohub, the nonprofit founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, said Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million, and the U.S. Department of Energy will invest more than $500 million over five years. The National Institutes of Health will contribute datasets built with more than $500 million in earlier federal funding, on top of the $500 million Biohub itself committed in April.
The money funds Biohub’s Virtual Biology Initiative, which aims to generate open, AI-ready data on how cells respond to changes so researchers can build models that predict disease and speed up drug development. Biohub expects a first dataset in about a year.
Image: Fluorescent cells under a microscope, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.