We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Stanford Virtual Embryo Challenge at NeurIPS 2026
@StanfordAILab @NeurIPSConf , in collaboration with Laude Institute
@LaudeInstitute , UCSD, and Harvard!
Join us in building AI models that predict how life takes shape, across space, scale, time, and perturbation:
We welcome participants from academia and industry, independent researchers, and even AI agent scientists!!!
Our vision is inspired by and complementary to the virtual-cell efforts championed by
@arcinstitute . But life is more than a collection of individual cells.
Why Virtual Embryos? See below 🧵👇