Institutional dossier
The documented history of EvolutionaryScale: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2021-04-05 to 2026-10-30 · 1 undated
8 claims · 7 sources · 8 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: Company that announced the ESM3 model in June 2024; it describes itself as a public benefit company.
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The dossier is computed from existing records. It is not a continuous history of the institution, and a missing record does not mean that an event or relationship did not happen. The chronology uses the dates of events and reports, not the date the public could first have known of them. Later sources can describe earlier events.
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- ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model · Archived copy, captured 2024-06-26: ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
- ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
- Biohub launches AI and biology initiative to cure disease
Chronology
Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.
2024Record year · 1 claims
- EvolutionaryScale published its announcement of ESM3 on 25 June 2024.EvolutionaryScale → published → ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language modelInspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
Evidence that the company published the announcement, not of any claim it contains. The page as served in 2026 names Tom Sercu as its author and carries an update note of January 2025; the cross-family machine check found no such byline in the capture of 26 June 2024, so the byline is not attributed to the announcement as first published (maintainer decision of 2026-10-30).
Date of the post, 25 June 2024, as the page as served in 2026 (“6.25.24”) and its capture of 26 June 2024 (read by the cross-family check) both display it.
2025Record year · 1 claims
- Biohub's 6 November 2025 release names Alex Rives as "EvolutionaryScale's co-founder and chief scientist".Alexander Rives → held role at → EvolutionaryScaleInspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
A role snapshot in a counterparty's release; EvolutionaryScale's counsel's note of the same date uses the same titles. No earlier tenure is reconstructed.
Source-dated snapshot; no start or end of the role is inferred.
2026Record year · 1 claims
- EvolutionaryScale's ESM3 post, as served on 2026-10-30, states: "EvolutionaryScale is a public benefit company."EvolutionaryScale → has legal form → public benefit company (as self-described) Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
The company's self-description; no jurisdiction or registration document was retrieved. Legal form does not describe governance in practice.
Snapshot at retrieval. The post is dated 25 June 2024, but this sentence is attested only from the page as served on 2026-10-30; the cross-family check did not report it in the capture of 26 June 2024. Biohub's release of 6 November 2025 also calls EvolutionaryScale "a frontier AI research lab and public benefit company".
Date unknownRecord year · 1 claims
- Biohub's 6 November 2025 release and Gunderson Dettmer's note of the same date describe Alex Rives as a co-founder of EvolutionaryScale.Alexander Rives → co-founded → EvolutionaryScaleInspect claim & evidence ↗
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Qualification and date notes
Participation in founding as stated; neither sole founding nor a founding date is established, and no other founder is named in these sources.
No founding date is stated in these sources.