Oliver Vince
24 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room
Oliver Vince (Basecamp Research) Interview Begins
After a Base ad read, the hosts welcome Oliver Vince, co-founder of Basecamp Research, noting he must be busy and that the company is doing world-changing work — per the earlier rundown, building the trillion gene atlas, the biggest effort to map life on Earth since the Human Genome Project, in partnership with NVIDIA and Anthropic. The conversation is just getting underway as this part of the recording ends.
20 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room
Oliver Vince, Basecamp Research: Programming DNA with AI
Basecamp Research co-founder Oliver Vince explains training GPT-4-scale models on DNA to "program biology," partnering with Anthropic so Claude maps treatment plans while Basecamp's model designs the actual DNA—such as custom antibiotics for individual patients. He recounts the founding story (PhDs, packing a molecular biology lab onto sledges across an ice cap), the trillion-gene Atlas now spanning 31 countries with consented local data, being named in NVIDIA's $2B UK AI investment, and why he calls biology the ultimate technology.