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Arc Institute
Research lab · Nonprofit research · Model developer · Palo Alto, California
Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2021, that works in partnership with Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. Its research spans experimental biology and computational models, including the Evo 2 DNA language model and virtual cell models.134
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- Arc describes Evo 2 as developed by Arc and NVIDIA scientists together with collaborators at Stanford University, UCSF, UC Berkeley, Goodfire, and the University of Washington. It was released as a preprint in February 2025 and published in Nature on March 4, 2026.4
- Arc publishes Evo 2 code on GitHub and Evo 2 checkpoints and the OpenGenome2 training dataset on Hugging Face under the Apache License 2.0.576
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Arc Institute describes itself as an independent nonprofit research organization based in Palo Alto, California, and its contact page gives a Palo Alto address. The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists Arc Research Institute at that address as a 501(c)(3) organization.128
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