Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research. It’ll be made up of more than 1,000 GPUs. And these aren’t just any graphics card — they’re top-of-the-line H100 GPUs that are highly sought after for AI-focused servers.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is making really bold claims about what it hopes this computing system will be able to do.

Mark Zuckerberg和Priscilla Chan的基金会正在资助构建用于医学研究的大型计算系统。它将由超过1000 GPU组成。这些不仅仅是任何显卡-它们是H100 GPU系列的顶级产品，受到人工智能服务器的追捧。Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative（CZI）正在对希望这个计算系统能够做的事情做出真正大胆的主张。

A press release claims the computing system “will lead to groundbreaking new discoveries that could help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century.” The aim is to give researchers access to generative AI to study healthy and diseased cells. Using predictive models of human cells can help researchers better understand how the body responds to diseases or new medicines.

新闻稿声称，计算系统“将导致本世纪末有助于治愈，预防或管理所有疾病的开创性新发现。”目的是让研究人员获得生成AI来研究健康和患病细胞。使用人体细胞的预测模型可以帮助研究人员更好地了解身体对疾病或新药的反应。

It’s like running a “virtual cell” through different simulations to see what might happen, as CZI co-founders Chan and her husband Zuckerberg put it in an essay in MIT Technology Review.“AI models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection, what happens at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease, or even how a patient’s body will respond to a new medication.”“AI models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection, what happens at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease, or even how a patient’s body will respond to a new medication,” Chan says in the press release.

就像CZI的联合创始人Chan和她的丈夫Zuckerberg在麻省理工学院技术评论中发表了一篇论文一样，通过不同的模拟运行“虚拟单元”来查看可能发生的情况。“AI模型可以预测免疫细胞如何对感染做出反应，当孩子出生时患有罕见疾病时细胞水平会发生什么，甚至可以预测患者的身体对新药的反应。Chan在新闻稿中说：“AI模型可以预测免疫细胞对感染的反应，当孩子出生时患有罕见疾病时细胞水平会发生什么，甚至患者的身体会对新药产生反应。”。

The thing is, these tools can be so expensive that they’re out of reach for many scientists. That’s what CZI wants to change. The new GPU cluster is expected to power “openly available” models of human cells in order to speed up medical research and encourage scientists to work collaboratively, CZI says.

事实上，这些工具可能非常昂贵，以至于许多科学家都无法接触到它们。这就是CZI想要改变的东西。CZI说，新的GPU集群有望为人类细胞的“公开可用”模型提供动力，以加快医学研究并鼓励科学家合作工作。

To develop new AI models, the CZI-f.

为了开发新的AI模型，CZI-f。