Foundation models, built in collaboration with leading academic labs
Open Athena partners with top academic institutions to build scientific foundation models. These collaborations span genomics, climate, structural biology, materials science, and general-purpose AI, with each one pushing the boundaries of what’s possible when engineers and labs work together in the open.
Projects
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Language
Marin
Open development large language models
With Stanford, Open Athena is building a fully open platform for research and development of foundation models.
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Life Sciences
PlantCAD + GeneCAD
DNA foundation model for plant genomics
In partnership with Cornell, PlantCAD teaches AI to read plant DNA, while GeneCAD identifies the genes responsible for shaping growth, yield, and resilience.
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Earth Science
FOMO
Climate and ocean modeling at planetary scale
Developed with NYU and MIT, FOMO trains AI to emulate ocean behavior hundreds of times faster than traditional simulations, creating open, high-resolution models that advance global climate research.
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Materials Science
RHOAR-Net
Materials science electronic structure model
With Princeton, Open Athena is building a foundation model for predicting the electronic structure of materials.
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Language
E2D2
Discrete diffusion large language model
With Cornell, Open Athena is building a discrete diffusion language model.
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