Claim · 2025-06-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Arc Institute announced on 26 June 2025 a public "Virtual Cell Challenge" with "a grand prize worth $100,000" for the model that best predicts how cells respond to genetic perturbations, hosted by Arc and sponsored, as it states, by NVIDIA, 10x Genomics and Ultima Genomics.

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Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competition → states provision → Arc announced a "Virtual Cell Challenge" with a $100,000 grand prize, sponsored by NVIDIA, 10x Genomics and Ultima Genomics

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Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competitionstates provision ↓Arc announced a "Virtual Cell Challenge" with a $100,000 grand prize, sponsored by NVIDIA, 10x Genomics and Ultima Genomics

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Provision: Statement · provision ID labs-arc-vcc-2025
Date: 2025-06-26 · publication Records dated 2025 →

Scope and limitsAn announced competition and its stated sponsors; sponsorship terms are not stated, and no ranking of models is recorded.

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primary sourceSupports the claim

Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competition using AI to solve one of biology's biggest challenges

Arc Institute · 2025-06-26

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“The competition, hosted by Arc Institute at virtualcellchallenge.org and sponsored by NVIDIA, 10x Genomics, and Ultima Genomics, is focused on accelerating progress in AI modeling of biology.”

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Authors: Arc Institute
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 5bce9cb899ec3298b975f6eff7db115a7f17e3e59987eda9ddaaefe8d83faf21). Arc news page dated June 26, 2025, as served on 2026-10-30. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-30
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Arc Institute, “Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competition using AI to solve one of biology's biggest challenges”, 2025-06-26.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI in biology (research/ai-in-biology). The quotation (27 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competition using AI to solve one of biology's biggest challenges

Arc Institute · 2025-06-26

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Source excerpt

“a public competition with a grand prize worth $100,000 for the machine learning model that best predicts how cells will respond to genetic perturbations”

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How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Arc Institute
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 5bce9cb899ec3298b975f6eff7db115a7f17e3e59987eda9ddaaefe8d83faf21). Arc news page dated June 26, 2025, as served on 2026-10-30. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-30
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Arc Institute, “Arc Institute launches its inaugural "virtual cell" competition using AI to solve one of biology's biggest challenges”, 2025-06-26.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI in biology (research/ai-in-biology). The quotation (24 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Record ID aib-labs-arc-vcc-2025