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Convergent Research
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Convergent Research
@Convergent_FROs
A mission control for frontier technology.
To learn more about Focused Research Organizations, visit our website.
- A reminder to the scientific community at large that we are always seeking short abstracts towards FRO proposals at convergentresearch.org/get-involved This can be in any field, as long as there is a major bottleneck in R&D that a FRO-shaped team can unlock. See: nature.com/articles/d4158…
- Today we’re officially launching Convergent Research, aimed at solving scientific & technological challenges that are not currently addressed in the existing R&D ecosystem. We’re proud to be the first initiative of the @SchmidtFutures Network! Read more:
- "There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap. Once you know where they are, you can conduct research to break through these bottlenecks (or find clever ways to route around them) and unlock essential
- Roadmapping report: sequencing-roadmap.org Meta-genomic sequencing (MGS) can in principle detect ~any pathogen in human samples. But MGS is not yet widely available to clinicians and patients around the world, largely due to complex workflows and high costs. 🧵
- Excited to announce our new partnership with @ARIA_research! As an Activation Partner, we will be launching Focused Research Organizations (FROs) in the UK (“FROST UK”) in ARIA’s opportunity spaces. Stay tuned for our open call for proposals in Spring 2025 convergentresearch.org/blog/aria-coll…
- 🚀 Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. 🔬Submit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. ⤵️
- Excited to see just-launching FROs @EvEBiotech @ParallelSqTech and up-&-running FROs @CultivariumFRO @E11BIO featured in @Forbes. With support from @SchmidtFutures & new support from Ken Griffin for @ParallelSqTech as well as a not-yet-announced project! forbes.com/sites/alexknap…
- Far-UVC light is a promising potential tool for pandemic control. CR's biosecurity road-mappers convened a workshop with top experts on UV emitters to figure out how to make this tool affordable and scalable. Read the report here: convergentresearch.org/blog/far-uvc-r…
- Come join us & the incredible teams @E11BIO @CultivariumFRO on our moonshot mission to revolutionize science. Our goal is to accelerate scientific research by targeting key bottlenecks with Focused Research Organizations (FROs). Check out our open roles:
- "Academic research groups and startups are essential drivers of scientific progress. But some projects, like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Human Genome Project, are too big for any one academic lab or loose consortium. They’re also not immediately profitable enough for
- We are excited to help enable the Lean FRO, which is developing a free, open-source formal mathematics system. New technologies have the potential to allow more scalable collaboration, facilitate the use of AI, and ultimately expand the reach and accessibility of mathematics.We are excited to share the news of the Lean Focused Research Organization (FRO): lean-fro.org! A new nonprofit dedicated to advancing the Formal Mathematics revolution, we aim to tackle the challenges of scalability, usability, and proof automation in Lean.
- Congrats @GoogleDeepMind! We're excited to see this project making essential use of @leanprover, which is being developed by Lean FRO (lean-fro.org). AI for mathematics may become one of the fundamental and pivotal technologies of our times.Our latest work AlphaProof, building on AlphaZero, LLMs and the @leanprover theorem prover, combined with AlphaGeometry 2 managed to solve 4 IMO problems and achieve silver-medalist level! 🚀 More at dpmd.ai/imo-silver
- Scientific research has been held back by the very systems driving it. There’s no shortage of intelligence among our scientists, nor creativity and hard work. But there are essential technologies missing.
