Radical Numerics

About Radical Numerics

Radical Numerics is a Menlo Park AI research lab spun out of Stanford that builds multimodal foundation models for biology—spanning DNA, RNA, proteins and related modalities—to enable generative genomics for medicine and biodefense. Co-founded by Eric Nguyen, Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli and Armin, the team previously released Evo and Evo 2, open biological sequence models trained across millions of genomes that other researchers have used to design a functional synthetic bacteriophage. Its preview genome language model Omnii uses a multi-hybrid architecture with a two-million-token context window, multimodality and mid-/post-training alignment, and is being piloted for early cancer detection with a diagnostics partner and for biosurveillance with a U.S. national laboratory. In June 2026 Radical Numerics launched with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, with Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, First Spark Ventures and Factory, to scale compute (including an NVIDIA Blackwell data centre), architecture research and dual-mandate work in human health and biodefense. Sources: Emergence Capital 15 Jun 2026; company blog; GenomeWeb; radicalnumerics.ai.